Animal Farm
Chapter X (10)
1. What is meant by the words “the short animal lives
fled by”?
Years passed. Many animals died.
2. What is an “inebriates home”?
Home where alcoholics recover.
3. Why has no animal retired?
The pigs would not allow
them to retire, a pasture was
never set aside for animals
reaching the retirement age.
4. Why were the pigs so fat?
They ate all
the food.
5. In our own words state where Napoleon says you can find
the truest happiness.
Hard work and frugal living.
Frugal: live on little money
and you waste nothing.
6. If dreaming of stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were
denounced as ideas contrary to the spirit of Animalism, what is Animalism then all about?
Animalism is about dictatorship.
The pigs receive everything and
the rest of the animals must work
so that the pigs can get
everything.
7. Is there any sense in the work the pigs do? Give a reason
for your answer.
No. Everything they
write is burnt in a
furnace.
8. Why should these animals have the same rights as the pigs
and the dogs?
They are all
animals.
9. Why did the animals accept their lives?
They were still immensely proud of being the
only farm in England run by animals.
They accepted hardship and labour as being
part of life.
They could not compare their current life
with any other kind of life.
10. Of what are the animals still dreaming?
The Republic of Animals which
Major had foretold, when the
green fields of England should be
untrodden by human feet.
11. Although the animals suffered there was one aspect that
set them apart from all other animals. What was that?
Animal Farm
belonged to them.
12. When the pigs wanted to make a major change in their lives, why did
they get the sheep on their side before they informed the other animals?
The sheep were the stupidest of all animals
and they outnumbered the rest of the
animals.
If you could teach the sheep a new principle,
they could overwhelm the other animals by
bleating it out.
13. Why did the world turn upside down for the animals when the pigs
walked on their hind legs and Napoleon had a whip in his trotter?
The commandments state clearly that
everything on two legs is an enemy.
The pigs are walking on two legs, an
aspect that set animals apart from
human beings.
14. Why did the animals not protest?
At the moment they wanted to
protest the sheep started to bleat:
Four legs good, two legs better!
15. What is the implied meaning of the new and only commandment that
was written on the wall?
Some animals
deserve to get more
than other animals.
16. What does the following sentence imply “and not knowing whether to
be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors.”
There seemed to be
no difference between
pigs and humans.
17. Why did the humans regard Animal Farm as a threat when
it was first established?
They were afraid the farm
would encourage their own
animals to rebel.
18. What is the meaning of the word “incumbent”?
“But before doing so, there were a few words that
he felt it incumbent upon him to say”
necessary as a result of a
duty, responsibility, or .
19. Write down the synonyms for the underlined words and answer the
questions concerning the words spoken by Pilkington.
It was a source of great
satisfaction to him, he said –
and, he was sure, to all others
present – to feel that…
19.1 Who are the “others” Pilkington refers to?
The other
human farmers
19.2 (mistrust) distrust
19.3 (misunderstanding)
mistake/ mix-up
19.4 Is the statement in brackets true of false? Give a reason
for your answer.
(There had been a time - not that he or any of the present
company – had shared such sentiments)
False, Pilkington and Frederick destroyed the windmill
and attacked Animal Farm twice.
19.5 What sentiments is Pilkington refering to?
Sentiments that Animal Farm will not succeed and that
Animal Farm is a threat.
19.6 (proprietors) owners
19.7 (regarded) seen as
19.8 (hostility) enmity
19.9 (misgiving) doubt, suspicion
19.10 (current) present / existing
19.11 operated - run
19.12 (liable) – legally responsible
19.13(unsettling effect) – upsetting/ disturbing result/
outcome
19.14. Who is living in this neighbourhood that Pilkington
refers to?
Human
farmers
19.15 (due) expected
19.16(inquire) ask/ question
19.17 What type of farm is “such a farm”?
A farm run by Pigs
19.18 What is a spirit of licence and indicipline or what would animals on
farms be like if there is a “spirit of licence and indicipline” on the farm?
Animals would do what
they want to and won’t
listen to orders.
20. Who are the “lower” animals on Animal Farm and why are they called
the “lower” animals?
All the animals except for Pigs and
dogs.
They are called the lower animals
because they have to work.
21. What similarity said Pilkington is there between human farmers and
pig farmers?
They had the same struggles and
difficulties.
They had the same problem with
labour.
22. Why can you now truly say that the animals on Animal Farm have
been conned by Napoleon?
The pigs used a dream
to steal the farm from
the animals.
23. Animal Farm is a “co-operative enterpise.” What does this mean?
All the pigs own
the farm as a co-op.
24. What are the “titledeeds” of a farm and who owned Animal Farm?
A documents which states
who is the owner.
The Pigs.
25. Why will the animals be stopped from addressing each other as
“comrades”?
They are not comrades
anymore. They don’t share
the same suffering, fate and
ideals anymore.
26. Why will the skull be removed?
The animals must not be
reminded of Major’s dream
because it will never be
realised.
27. Why will the flag only be green?
The hoof and the horn
represented the workers.
Nothing belonged to the
workers.
28. What does the changing of the name mean?
Nothing changed in
the way the farm was
managed.
29. Why were the card players angry when Napoleon and Pilkington
played aces of spades similtaneously?
There is only one ace of
spades in a pack of cards.
Napoleon and Pilkington were
cheating in the game.
30. What meaning do you read into the ending of the book?
The Pigs turned into humans.
The pigs became like the very thing they
rebelled against at first.
A revolution will not change a situation, you
will return to the same situation you have
revolted against in the first place.