Animal Farm - Corruption

Question 1

Define the term Corruption.

Answer 1

Dishonest behaviour by those in power.

Question 2

How were the pigs corrupt in
Animal farm?

Answer 2

They stole food from the animals- apples and milk.
They changed the commandments to allow them to break them for their own benefit.
They used Squealer to spread propaganda about Napoleon and life on the farm.
They made up statistics to show that food production is higher than reality.
Use of force and tyrannical leadership to control the animals.

Question 3

Quote analysis: “worked like slaves”
What device is used?

Answer 3

Simile

Question 4

Quote analysis: “You do not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds?”
What device is used?

Answer 4

Rhetorical question

Question 5

Quote analysis: “Surely, you don’t want Mr Jones back?”
What device is used?

Answer 5

Rhetorical question

Question 6

Quote analysis: “Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity”
What device is used?

Answer 6

Exclamatory sentence

Question 7

Quote analysis: “Our leader, Comrade Napoleon”
What device is used?

Answer 7

Inclusive language

Question 8

Quote analysis: “No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT cause”
What device is used?

Answer 8

Preposition

Question 9

Quote analysis: “He could turn black into white”
What device is used?

Answer 9

Metaphor

Question 10

Quote analysis: “Nine enormous dogs”
What device is used?

Answer 10

Adjective

Question 11

Who is Napoleon an allegorical character of?

Answer 11

Stalin

Question 12

Who is Snowball an allegorical character of?

Answer 12

Lenin

Question 13

Who is Squealer an allegorical character of?

Answer 13

Propaganda / Molotov

Question 14

Who does Benjamin allegorically represent?

Answer 14

Middle Class

Question 15

Who does Old Major represent?

Answer 15

Trotsky

Question 16

Finish the sentence: Orwell wrote Animal Farm to criticise…

Answer 16

… a corrupt society that did not allow the voices of the proletariat heard.

Question 17

Finish the sentence: Orwell wrote Animal Farm to expose…

Answer 17

… a dictatorship within which the people of Russia were controlled by a tyrannical leader.

Question 18

Finish the sentence: Orwell wrote Animal Farm to advocate…

Answer 18

…for social change in a dictatorial society.

Question 19

Finish the sentence: Orwell wrote Animal Farm to highlight…

Answer 19

… how Napoleon, who represents Stalin, forces the people of Russia to follow him blindly without question.