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Animal Farm: Chapters 1-2
Complete.
Review
1.
Describe the two elements that comprised the dream Old Major had the night before.
2.
What happened to Old Major three nights later?
3.
Where were these boldly written for all to read, and who placed them there?
4.
List three pigs that played a leading role in organizing the takeover.
5.
According to Old Major's talk, what determined friend from foe?
6.
What happened to the milk while the animals were gone to the hayfield?
7.
How long did the animals secretly prepare for the rebellion that Old Major predicted?
8.
Who owned Manor Farm and what was his affliction?
9.
What idea did Old Major plant in the minds of his barnyard friends?
10.
According to Old Major, while men are enemies, what are animals?
11.
Explain the neglect that spurred the Rebellion on a Sunday in June.
12.
Where did Mr. Jones, his wife, and hired workers escape to?
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13.
What situation ended the animals singing repeated verses of the song?
14.
What was Manor Farm renamed?
15.
List four items the animals threw down the well.
16.
What resolution was passed concerning the farmhouse?
17.
What chore demanded attention before the animals could begin harvesting the hay?
18.
Who volunteered to remain behind and attend to the buckets of milk?
19.
Why did Old Major summon a meeting late one night, after Mr. Jones had gone to bed?
20.
What did the animals do to the reins, halters, blinkers, whips, and nosebags?
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Animal Farm: Chapters 1-2
The very last paragraph of chapter two foreshadows trouble ahead for the animals. Explain the context
of the paragraph and what you predict will happen in the coming chapters.
Answer Key
1. First, he dreamed of the earth as it would be when man had vanished. Next he dreamed of an old
song his mother used to sing him, called Beasts of England.
2. He died in his sleep.
3. Snowball painted the Seven Commandments on the end wall of the big barn.
4. Napoleon, Snowball, and Squealer
5. Whatever walked on two legs was their enemy and whatever went on four legs or had wings was a
friend.
6. It disappeared.
7. three months
8. Mr. Jones, who had a drinking problem, owned Manor Farm.
9. He imbedded the idea that animals must overthrow the human race.
10. comrades
11. Mr. Jones went into Willington and drank so much, he didn't return home until midday on Sunday.
His lazy hired help forgot to feed the farm animals, thus one of the cows broke in the store-shed door
and all the animals helped themselves.
12. They ran to the main road and fled back into town.
13. Old Mr. Jones heard their uproar and shot some pellets into the barn wall.
14. Animal Farm
15. list includes: bits, nose rings, dog chains, and knives used to castrate the pigs and lambs
16. No animal must ever live there and it should be preserved as a museum.
17. The cows had to be milked.
18. Napoleon
19. Old Major had a dream the previous night and he wanted to share it with his fellow animals.
20. They threw them into a rubbish fire.