Name ________________________________________________________________ Period ______ Date ___________________ Demonstrate Your Understanding of Animal Farm Chapter 1 1. What was the name of the farm and who owned it? 2. What animal failed to show up for the meeting? 3. What term does Old Major use to address the animals? 4. What were some of the complaints against man that Old Major mentioned during his speech? 5. During his speech, what warnings does Old Major give to the animals in their fight against man? 6. How did the animals react when Old Major was done talking? 7. Explain at least two key ideas that were in the song. 8. Why do you think the song had such an impact on the animals? 9. The pigs and dogs arrive first and sit in the front to hear Old Major. What does this tell us about them? 10. From the animal’s reactions, do you think they agreed or disagreed with Old Major? Explain your answer. 11. Predict what you think will happen now that Old Major has shared his dream. Chapter 2 1. What did the pigs do with Old Major’s teachings?’ 2. What place did Moses, the tame raven, claim to know about? What might we call this place? 3. What did the animals find hanging in the kitchen of the farmhouse, and what did they do with them? 4. What was the set of several principles known as? Chapter 3 1. What two food items did the pigs claim for themselves? 2. Describe the flag Snowball created. 3. Seven commandants were reduced to a single maxim. What is it? 4. “Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?’’ Why was this an effective way of ending all dissension among the animals? 5. Compare and contrast Snowball’s and Napoleon’s ideas on education. 6. How are the pigs assuming a more dominant position than the other animals? 7. Why do you think Squealer said that many of the pigs really disliked the milk and apples? Do you think this is true? Explain your answer. 8. Was life at this point better than it was under Mr. Jones? Justify your answer. Chapter 4 1. Why didn’t the other farmers help Mr. Jones? 2. Describe Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Fredrick in detail. 3. Tell, in detail, about the Battle of the Cowshed. 4. Compare and contrast Mr. Pilkington’s and Mr. Fredrick’s farms and the way they were run. Chapter 5 1. What was the signal that caused the pack of dogs to bound into the barn and attack Snowball? 2. Boxer adopted a new maxim for Napoleon. What is it? 3. On Sunday mornings, as the animals would file into the barn, they were required to pay respects to something placed on the stump. What is it? 4. Who is finally given credit for the idea of building a windmill? 5. Squealer had a word for the scheming and maneuvering of Napoleon to get rid of Snowball. What was this word? Chapter 6 1. Despite the claim that all work was “strictly voluntary,’’ what happened if an animal chose not to work? 2. Which animal worked the hardest at building the windmill? 3. When there were shortages of certain items on Animal Farm, Napoleon decides to pass a new policy. What is it? 4. How do the animals respond initially to the new policy? How do the four young pigs respond? 5. What is the name of the only human being whom the pigs will do business with? 6. Squealer is sent around twice in this chapter to convince the animals of something. What? 7. What “title” has Squealer now given to Napoleon? 8. The animals were sure that commandment #4 was now being broken. Evidently, the pigs had altered the commandment to suit their needs. What was changed? 9. Who was blamed for the destruction of the windmill? Why? 10. Napoleon pronounced death to Snowball. What rewards does he offer for the capture of Snowball? Be specific. Chapter 7 1. By January, what is the condition of the animals on Animal Farm? 2. What does Napoleon order to be done to deceive the humans about the true state of Animal Farm? 3. What incident followed after Squealer announced that the hens would have to surrender their eggs? 4. When anything went wrong on Animal Farm, who was blamed for it? 5. Squealer told the animals that Snowball was a secret agent for someone. Who? 6. Squealer tells the animals lies about Snowball. What does he say? 7. Later, Napoleon emerges from the farmhouse wearing 2 items. What are they? 8. With a signal, Napoleon ordered his dogs to seize 4 of the animals and drag them forward. What kind of animals were these? What is their crime? 9. What is the name of the animal who feels the things happening are “due to some fault of ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder.” 10. A tradition at Animal Farm has now been abolished. According to Squealer, it is no longer needed. What has been abolished? What reason was given for abolishing it? Chapter 8 1. The Sixth Commandment has been altered. What is the new commandment? 2. On Sundays, what did Squealer do to convince the animals that their hard labor was very productive? 3. Napoleon appears less and less in public. When he does appear, it is with a procession of others. Describe the procession. 4. The gun is fired on two of Animal Farm’s most important anniversaries. However, it is now fired on yet another occasion that may not be so important. What is this other occasion? 5. What were some of the titles given to Napoleon? List four examples. 6. Minimus composes a poem about Napoleon. What is a major idea found in the poem? 7. Three hens came forward and confessed to a plot to kill Napoleon. As a result, new precautions are taken. What are these precautions? 8. In the late summer, many things are going wrong on Animal Farm. The wheat crop is discovered to be full of weeds. A gander confesses that it was Snowball’s plan before the gander committed suicide. Squealer then spreads another rumor about Snowball. What is the rumor? 9. Napoleon pronounced death upon Frederick and said he should be boiled alive. What did Frederick do to deserve this? 10. In the Battle of the Windmill, the animals were losing, but then something happened that made them fight even more fiercely. What was it? 11. The pigs came upon a case of whiskey in the cellar and Napoleon became so hung-over that his impending death was announced. What was Napoleon’s solemn decree (which was supposed to be his last act on earth)? 12. Napoleon recovered from his illness and began plans to brew and distill alcohol. In a humorous incident involving Squealer, the Fifth Commandment was altered. Describe the incident (give at least 3 details). 13. Which animal seemed to realize what the entire incident meant? Chapter 9 1. Life was hard and the winter was cold. All rations were reduced for most of the animals. Which two groups of animals did not have their rations reduced? 2. Thirty-one young pigs were born in autumn. What were they discouraged from doing? 3. What was a new rule introduced about this time? What special privilege did the pigs have on Sundays? 4. Napoleon commanded that once a week there would be a Spontaneous Demonstration. What is it? 5. During the Spontaneous Demonstrations at Animal Farm, Boxer and Clover carried the green banner that had a picture of a hoof and a horn. It also has a caption. What does the caption say? 6. In April, what is Animal Farm declared and who is elected President? 7. Also in April, new documents were discovered about Snowball. What is Snowball being accused of now? What have the pigs changed about the past? 8. In the middle of the summer, an animal returns to Animal Farm and starts talking about something. Who is it? What does he talk about? 9. After Boxer took ill and was contemplating his retirement, he intended to devote the rest of his life doing what? 10. Boxer was taken away by the “horse slaughterer” instead of the “horse surgeon.” How did Squealer explain this predicament to the animals? 11. On the day appointed for the banquet to remember Boxer, a van from Willingdon delivers a crate containing whiskey. Where did the pigs get the money to buy the alcohol? Chapter 10 1. Squealer has become so fat that he has difficulty doing what? 2. What human trait or qualities have the pigs acquired? 3. What are the sheep now bleating, as instructed by Squealer? 4. State the one and only commandment now found on the wall of the barn. 5. The very next day, the pigs start to adopt more human characteristics. What do they do? 6. In the evening, the other animals hear laughter and singing from the farmhouse. Some of the animals peek through the window. What do they see? 7. Napoleon tells the farmers that certain customs or traditions at Animal Farm will be stopped at once. What customs will be stopped? 8. As a quarrel breaks out between the pigs and the humans, the other animals outside stare back and forth between the pigs and the humans. They notice something about the two. What is it? Write a Proper Journal Answer: Answer each question in a complete sentence. Make your answer concise, and yet complete. You need not restate the question. However, in your answer, have a preference for nouns (Mr. Jones, Clover, the Manor Farm, the four young pigs) rather than pronouns (he, she, it, they). Show evidence of depth and complexity in your thinking, and time and effort in your presentation. Write a Proper Journal Answer: Answer each question in a complete sentence. Make your answer concise, and yet complete. You need not restate the question. However, in your answer, have a preference for nouns (Mr. Jones, Clover, the Manor Farm, the four young pigs) rather than pronouns (he, she, it, they). Show evidence of depth and complexity in your thinking, and time and effort in your presentation. Example Question: What was the name of the farm and who owned it? Example Question: What was the name of the farm and who owned it? Weak Answer: It was called the Manor Farm. It was owned by Mr. Jones. Weak Answer: It was called the Manor Farm. It was owned by Mr. Jones. Concise, Complete Answer: The farm, which was owned by Mr. Jones, was known as the Manor Farm. Concise, Complete Answer: The farm, which was owned by Mr. Jones, was known as the Manor Farm. Write a Proper Journal Answer: Answer each question in a complete sentence. Make your answer concise, and yet complete. You need not restate the question. However, in your answer, have a preference for nouns (Mr. Jones, Clover, the Manor Farm, the four young pigs) rather than pronouns (he, she, it, they). Show evidence of depth and complexity in your thinking, and time and effort in your presentation. Write a Proper Journal Answer: Answer each question in a complete sentence. Make your answer concise, and yet complete. You need not restate the question. However, in your answer, have a preference for nouns (Mr. Jones, Clover, the Manor Farm, the four young pigs) rather than pronouns (he, she, it, they). Show evidence of depth and complexity in your thinking, and time and effort in your presentation. Example Question: What was the name of the farm and who owned it? Example Question: What was the name of the farm and who owned it? Weak Answer: It was called the Manor Farm. It was owned by Mr. Jones. Weak Answer: It was called the Manor Farm. It was owned by Mr. Jones. Concise, Complete Answer: The farm, which was owned by Mr. Jones, was known as the Manor Farm. Concise, Complete Answer: The farm, which was owned by Mr. Jones, was known as the Manor Farm.