Animal Farm Quiz

Question 1

Who do the following characters represent?

Napoleon, Squealer, Snowball, Old Major

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin, Russian media, Leo Trotsky (exiled from Russia in 1929 as Stalin took control), Karl Marx/Vladimir Lenin

Question 2

Who do Boxer and Mollie represent

Answer 2

Working class, Mollie may simply represent members of the working class that remained faithful to the Czar

Question 3

Who do the dogs represent in Animal Farm

Answer 3

Military/police

Question 4

Who do the birds represent in animal farm?

Answer 4

In real life, there were several classes of citizens ‘left out’ of socialist rhetoric as well.
The rural farmers, the clergy, the ‘intelligentsia’, and other ‘non-labour union’ types probably felt left out, just as the birds did in the novel

Question 5

Who does Moses represent

Answer 5

Russian Orthodox Church

Question 6

The Hens represent ____________.

Answer 6

Peasant farmers

Question 7

The rats and rabbits represent _____

Answer 7

represent beggars, thieves and gypsies.

Question 8

The sheep represent the _____ at large and the “fox in the yard” represents _______

Answer 8

Masses, revolutionaries

Question 9

Manor Farm represents Russia while Animal farm represents _____

Answer 9

USSR

Question 10

Foxwood is owned by ____ and represents _____ while Pinchfield is owned by ____ and represents _____

Answer 10

Pilkington, England

Frederick, Germany

Question 11

Animal Farm was written by _______

One of his other famous books is _____

Answer 11

George Orwell, 1984

Question 12

What two animals are best friends on the farm?

Answer 12

Boxer and Benjamin

Question 13

Humans are ______

Answer 13

Capitalists

Question 14

A system of thought summarizing Old Major’s teachings

Answer 14

Animalism

Question 15

Who discovers Sugarcandy Mountain

Answer 15

Moses the crow

Question 16

What are the 7 commandments on animal farm?

Answer 16

(1) Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. (2) Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. (3) No animal shall wear clothes. (4) No animal shall sleep in a bed. (5) No animal shall drink alcohol. (6) No animal shall kill any other animal. (7) All animals are equal.

Question 17

What is the single Maxim the seven commandments get reduced to?

Answer 17

Four legs good, two legs bad

Question 18

“Animal Hero, First Class” and “Animal Hero, Second Class” are awarded to whom at the end of the Battle of Cowshed

Answer 18

Snowball, Boxer

Sheep (who died)

Question 19

Which word best characterizes Benjamin’s feelings towards the windmill

Answer 19

Apathetic

Question 20

What really knocked down the windmill the first time, even though the animals thought it was _____

Answer 20

A storm, Snowball

Question 21

How many hens die when they rebel

Answer 21

Nine

Question 22

When Napoleon orders the dogs to kill the “traitors,” do the animals know it is Napoleon that’s doing so?

Answer 22

No, they believe it is simply the dogs going ballistic

Question 23

Napoleon changes his name to “___________________________”

Answer 23

Our Leader, Comrade Napoleon

Question 24

The second attack is led by ____________ and he and his man destroy the windmill by ___________________. _________ is injured

Answer 24

Frederick (Germany)
Blowing it up
Boxer

Question 25

When does Benjamin first show emotion

Answer 25

In Chapter 9, when Boxer is taken to the “hospital” (glue factory) after he is hurt and decides to retire

Question 26

What do the pigs do with the money they earned from sending Boxer away?

Answer 26

Buy whiskey

Question 27

The pigs meet inside the farmhouse with the neighboring farmer _________________, who congratulates them on running a farm with the hardest working and most underfed animals in England.

Answer 27

Pilkington

Question 28

The pigs ditch the name Animal Farm and begin calling it _________ again

Answer 28

Manor Farm

Question 29

lie is something that contradicts the _______’ agenda; a truth is something that supports it

Answer 29

Pigs

Question 30

What is ironic about the Rules in Animal Farm?

Answer 30

Instead of preserving order, rules are used to deceive and abuse.

Question 31

Who do the following characters represent?

Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Pilkington, Mr. Frederick, Mr. Whymper

Answer 31

The last Tsar of Russia, the Tsar’s wife, French leaders, German leaders (Hitler), capitalists who did business with the Soviet trade