English -- Animal Farm Notes (quiz)

Question 1

How long did George Orwell live?

Answer 1

1903-1950

Question 2

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

Answer 2

novelist and critic; political and cultural commentator

Question 3

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

Answer 3

critical of totalitarianism and Stalinism

Question 4

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

Answer 4

reputation for standing apart

Question 5

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

Answer 5

oppose the crowd

Question 6

How did Orwell view socialists, communists, and fascists?

Answer 6

repressive and self-serving

Question 7

Orwell was skeptical of governments because?

Answer 7

their willingness to forsake ideas in favor of power

Question 8

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

Answer 8

make up stories and talk with imaginary companions

Question 9

Animal Farm is a masterpiece of what?

Answer 9

political satire

Question 10

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

Answer 10

by assuming the very power that had originally oppressed them

Question 11

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

Answer 11

mistreated animals and exhibit human characteristics

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

the communist system in the former Soviet Union

Question 14

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

Answer 14

power of allegory

Question 15

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

Answer 15

betrayal of idealism; tyranny and corruption

Question 16

When was Animal Farm published?

Answer 16

1945

Question 17

What is one oldest literary forms?

Answer 17

a fable

Question 18

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

Answer 18

fable

Question 19

The earliest fables still preserved date back to when?

Answer 19

6th Century Greece BCE

Question 20

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

Answer 20

human emotions and human behavior

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Most fables have how many levels of meaning?

Answer 22

two

Question 23

the animals stand for what?

Answer 23

types of people or ideas

Question 24

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

Answer 24

nature of people or the value of ideas

Question 25

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

Answer 25

allegory

Question 26

Animal Farm is strongly what?

Answer 26

strongly allegorical

Question 27

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

Answer 27

very moving

Question 28

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

Answer 28

comment on Soviet Russia

Question 29

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

Answer 29

a more general level of meaning

Question 30

the animals could also be symbols for what?

Answer 30

tyranny more broadly

Question 31

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

Answer 31

repression and manipulation

Question 32

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

Answer 32

a satire

Question 33

Orwell uses a satire to do what?

Answer 33

expose what he saw as the myth of Soviet socialism

Question 34

Irony results when there is a disparity between what?

Answer 34

what an audience would expect and what really happens

Question 35

Orwell uses what type of irony?

Answer 35

dramatic

Question 36

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

Answer 36

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

Question 37

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

Answer 37

much more of its significance than they can

Question 38

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

Answer 38

exaggerating faults and revealing hypocrisies

Question 39

Animal Farm is an allegory of what?

Answer 39

the Russian Revolution

Question 40

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

Answer 40

1917

Question 41

the Czar's government was overthrown and replaced by what?

Answer 41

the Bolshevik leadership of Vladimir Lenin

Question 42

When did Lenin die?

Answer 42

1924

Question 43

Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin struggled for what?

Answer 43

power

Question 44

Stalin won the battle and did what to Trotsky?

Answer 44

deported him to permanent exile

Question 45

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

Answer 45

move the Soviet Union into the modern industrial age

Question 46

Stalin's government seized land in order to create what?

Answer 46

collective farms

Question 47

Stalin's Five Year Plan was to attempt to do what?

Answer 47

modernized Soviet industry

Question 48

The government controlled the what? and outlawed all what?

Answer 48

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

Question 49

Who is Joseph Stalin in the book?

Answer 49

Napoleon

Question 50

Napoleon is what animal in the book?

Answer 50

boar

Question 51

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

Answer 51

rebel against Farmer Jones

Question 52

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

Answer 52

undisputed tyrant

Question 53

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

Answer 53

1922-1953

Question 54

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

Answer 54

KGB (secret police)

Question 55

Who is Czar Nicholas II in the book?

Answer 55

Farmer Jones

Question 56

Farmer Jones is the irresponsible what in the book?

Answer 56

owner of the farm

Question 57

Farmer Jones does what to his animals?

Answer 57

starves and beats them with a whip

Question 58

Farmer Jones also periodically shows his animals what?

Answer 58

random kindness

Question 59

Czar Nicholas II was a weak what?

Answer 59

Russian leader during the early 1900s

Question 60

Czar Nicholas II often treated his subjects how?

Answer 60

cruel and brutal

Question 61

Who is Leon Trotsky in the book?

Answer 61

Snowball

Question 62

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

Answer 62

most valuable leaders

Question 63

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

Answer 63

Karl Marx

Question 64

Who is Karl Marx in the book?

Answer 64

Old Major

Question 65

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

Answer 65

a rebellion

Question 66

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

Answer 66

Animalism

Question 67

Karl Marx is the inventor of what?

Answer 67

communism

Question 68

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

Answer 68

overthrow the government

Question 69

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

Answer 69

Karl Marx

Question 70

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

Answer 70

a working class and an owner class

Question 71

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?

Answer 71

the revolution

Question 72

Fables teach what?

Answer 72

moral or lesson

Question 73

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

Answer 73

humankind

Question 74

who is Squealer?

Answer 74

a big mouth pig who becomes Napoleon's mouthpiece

Question 75

Who is boxer?

Answer 75

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

Question 76

Who is jessie?

Answer 76

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

Question 77

Who is Moses?

Answer 77

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

Question 78

Who is Pilkington?

Answer 78

Jone's neighbor, forms an alliance with the pigs

Question 79

Who is Muriel?

Answer 79

a goat who believes in the rebellion

Question 80

Who is Mollie?

Answer 80

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

Question 81

Who is Benjamin?

Answer 81

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

Question 82

Who are the sheep?

Answer 82

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

Question 83

who are the dogs?

Answer 83

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

Question 84

In the book, animalism represents what?

Answer 84

communism

Question 85

Animalism means what 4 things?

Answer 85

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

Question 86

communism means what 3 things?

Answer 86

all people are equal government owns everything people own the government

Question 87

the animal farm revolution represents what?

Answer 87

Russian revolution

Question 88

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

Answer 88

worse

Question 89

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

Answer 89

a nice guy