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English -- Animal Farm Notes (quiz) Flashcards

1
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How long did George Orwell live?

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1903-1950

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Orwell is noted as a _______ and _______ as well as what other two things?

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novelist and critic; political and cultural commentator

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He’s best known for two novels ______ of _______ in general and ________ in particular:
Animal Farm
1984

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critical of totalitarianism and Stalinism

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Orwell was a person who had a what and even making a virtue of his detachment?

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reputation for standing apart

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The “outsider” position often led him to do what?

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oppose the crowd

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How did Orwell view socialists, communists, and fascists?

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repressive and self-serving

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Orwell was skeptical of governments because?

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their willingness to forsake ideas in favor of power

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Orwell was a lonely boy who was likely to do what?

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make up stories and talk with imaginary companions

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Animal Farm is a masterpiece of what?

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political satire

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Animal Farm is a tale of oppressed individuals who long for freedom but are ultimately corrupted by what?

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by assuming the very power that had originally oppressed them

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The story traces the deplorable conditions of what, who can speak, and exhibit what?

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mistreated animals and exhibit human characteristics

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After extreme negligence by their owner, the animals do what?

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revolt and expel Mr. Jones and his wife from the farm

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The tale of the society the animals form into a totalitarian regime is generally viewed as Orwell’s critique of what?

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the communist system in the former Soviet Union

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Does Animal Farm deserve our attention? The answer lies in what?

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power of allegory

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Orwell’s chilling story of the ______ of ______ through what is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1945.

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betrayal of idealism; tyranny and corruption

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When was Animal Farm published?

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1945

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17
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What is one oldest literary forms?

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a fable

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what is usually short, written in either verse or prose, and conveys a clear moral or message

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fable

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The earliest fables still preserved date back to when?

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6th Century Greece BCE

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Though Aesop’s animal fables were ostensibly about animals, they were really instructional tales on what?

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human emotions and human behavior

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Orwell took the short animal fable and expanded it to what?

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the length of a short novel in the form of an allegory

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Most fables have how many levels of meaning?

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two

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the animals stand for what?

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types of people or ideas

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The way the animals interact and the way the plot unfolds says something about what?

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nature of people or the value of ideas

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Any type of fiction that has multiple levels of meaning in this way is called a what?

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allegory

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Animal Farm is strongly what?

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strongly allegorical

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On the first level the story of the animals is what?

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very moving

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The story’s second level involves the careful critique Orwell created to what?

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comment on Soviet Russia

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Animal Farm also has a third meaning, this meaning is usually what?

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a more general level of meaning

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the animals could also be symbols for what?

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tyranny more broadly

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31
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The characteristics are the qualities of all leaders who rely on what?

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repression and manipulation

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32
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the writer attacks a serious issue by presenting it in a ridiculous light or otherwise poking fun at it is what?

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a satire

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Orwell uses a satire to do what?

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expose what he saw as the myth of Soviet socialism

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Irony results when there is a disparity between what?

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what an audience would expect and what really happens

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Orwell uses what type of irony?

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dramatic

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36
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Orwell relies on what to conclude about the situation on Animal Farm?

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the difference between what the animals understand and what the audience concludes

37
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We know just what the animals know, but we also see what?

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much more of its significance than they can

38
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Satire stages a critique of an individual, group, or idea by doing what?

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exaggerating faults and revealing hypocrisies

39
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Animal Farm is an allegory of what?

A

the Russian Revolution

40
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by what year, amidst the tremendous suffering of WW1, did a revolution begin?

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1917

41
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the Czar’s government was overthrown and replaced by what?

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the Bolshevik leadership of Vladimir Lenin

42
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When did Lenin die?

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1924

43
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Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin struggled for what?

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power

44
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Stalin won the battle and did what to Trotsky?

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deported him to permanent exile

45
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Stalin began with despotic urgency and exalted nationalism to do what?

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move the Soviet Union into the modern industrial age

46
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Stalin’s government seized land in order to create what?

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collective farms

47
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Stalin’s Five Year Plan was to attempt to do what?

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modernized Soviet industry

48
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The government controlled the what? and outlawed all what?

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flow and content of information to the people; outlawed all churches

49
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Who is Joseph Stalin in the book?

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Napoleon

50
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Napoleon is what animal in the book?

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boar

51
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In the book, Napoleon’s plan is to do what?

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rebel against Farmer Jones

52
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In the book, Napoleon systematically begins to control all aspects of the farm until he is what?

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undisputed tyrant

53
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Joseph Stalin is the communist dictator of the Soviet Union from what year? (he killed all who opposed him)

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1922-1953

54
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Stalin loved power and used what to enforce his ruthless corrupt antics?

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KGB (secret police)

55
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Who is Czar Nicholas II in the book?

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Farmer Jones

56
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Farmer Jones is the irresponsible what in the book?

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owner of the farm

57
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Farmer Jones does what to his animals?

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starves and beats them with a whip

58
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Farmer Jones also periodically shows his animals what?

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random kindness

59
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Czar Nicholas II was a weak what?

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Russian leader during the early 1900s

60
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Czar Nicholas II often treated his subjects how?

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cruel and brutal

61
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Who is Leon Trotsky in the book?

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Snowball

62
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Snowball is a boar who becomes one of the rebellion’s what?

A

most valuable leaders

63
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Leon Trotsky was a pure communist leader who was influenced by the teachings of who?

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Karl Marx

64
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Who is Karl Marx in the book?

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Old Major

65
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Old Major is and old boar whose speech about the evils perpetrated by humans rouses the animals into doing what?

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a rebellion

66
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Old Major’s philosophy concerning the tyranny of Man is called what?

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Animalism

67
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Karl Marx is the inventor of what?

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communism

68
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Karl Marx wanted to unite the working class to do what?

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overthrow the government

69
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Many of the ideals behind the Soviet revolution were based on the writings and teachings of who?

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Karl Marx

70
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Many that societies are divided into two segments, which are?

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a working class and an owner class

71
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Marx’s objective was to create a classless society in which the work is shared by all for the benefit of all, he believed what was a way to reach this goal?

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the revolution

72
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Fables teach what?

A

moral or lesson

73
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The animal characters often function as a satiric device to point out the follies of what?

A

humankind

74
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who is Squealer?

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a big mouth pig who becomes Napoleon’s mouthpiece

75
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Who is boxer?

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a dedicated but dimwitted horse who aids in the building of the windmill but is sold to a glue-boiler after collapsing from exhaustion

76
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Who is jessie?

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the farm’s sheepdog, keeps tabs on pigs, first to suspect something is wrong on the farm

77
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Who is Moses?

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a tame raven and sometimes-pet of Jones who tells the animals stories of paradise called Sugarcandy Mountain

78
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Who is Pilkington?

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Jone’s neighbor, forms an alliance with the pigs

79
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Who is Muriel?

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a goat who believes in the rebellion

80
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Who is Mollie?

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A vain horse who resists the animal rebellion because she doesn’t want to give up the petting and treats

81
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Who is Benjamin?

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the most cynical of all the animals, farm’s donkey doubts leadership of pigs but is faithfully devoted to Boxer

82
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Who are the sheep?

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remind themselves of the principles of animalism by chanting “four legs good, two legs bad” (not clever)

83
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who are the dogs?

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Napoleon’s private army that used fear to force the animals to work; killed any opponent of Napoleon

84
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In the book, animalism represents what?

A

communism

85
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Animalism means what 4 things?

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no rich, but no poor
better life for workers
all animals are equal
everyone owns the farm

86
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communism means what 3 things?

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all people are equal
government owns everything
people own the government

87
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the animal farm revolution represents what?

A

Russian revolution

88
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Animal Farm Revolution made life better or worse at the end?

A

worse

89
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In the Russian Revolution life became worse at the end and Stalin made Czar look like what?

A

a nice guy

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