Animal Farm Make-up Quiz
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1. In Animal Farm, Orwell criticizes primarily which world leader?
A. Joseph Stalin
B. Vladimir Lenin
C. Adolf Hitler
D. Leon Trotsky
2. Orwell completed Animal Farm during what international conflict?
A. World War II
B. The Cold War
C. The Russo-Japanese War
D. The Great War
3. Animal Farm is best described as a cautionary tale against
A. National socialism
B. communism
C. totalitarianism
D. Marxism
4. Animal Farm fits all of the following genres except
A. satire
B. fable
C. farce
D. allegory
5. In what armed conflict did Orwell participate voluntarily?
A. the Red Terror
B. the Spanish Civil War
C. the February Revolution
D. the French Congo Uprising
6. Orwell played all of the following roles during World War II except
A. secret police agent
B. propagandist
C. war correspondent
D. member of the Home Guard
7. Which of the following is true of Orwell?
A. he never married
B. he was a poor student
C. he died before the age of 50
D. he embraced luxury
8. Before Animal Farm, Orwell was known primarily as a(n)
A. teacher
B. soldier
C. member of the bourgeoisie
D. essayist
9. Orwell's other extremely successful novel is called
A. The Master and Margarita
B. Nineteen Eighty-Four
C. Brave New World
D. Harrison Bergeron
10. In what year did the Russian Revolution occur?
A. 1905
B. 1917
C. 1924
D. 1939
11. The initial Soviet campaign to quash internal dissidence was called
A. the Decembrists' Revolt
B. the Five-Year Plan
C. the Red Terror
D. the Cold War
12. What event allowed Stalin to assume Soviet leadership?
A. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
B. The February Revolution
C. Hitler's ascension
D. Lenin's death
13. What character in Animal Farm represents Karl Marx?
A. Old Major
B. Benjamin
C. Napoleon
D. Snowball
14. What character in Animal Farm represents Trotsky?
A. Boxer
B. Napoleon
C. Snowball
D. Squealer
15. What character in Animal Farm represents Stalin?
A. Frederick
B. the Horse-Slaughterer
C. Napoleon
D. Squealer
16. The dogs in Animal Farm can be said to represent
A. secret police
B. foreign diplomats
C. peasants
D. educated elites
17. What character adopts the personal maxim, "I will work harder"?
A. Clover
B. Benjamin
C. Boxer
D. Snowball
18. Which class of creatures stages its own small-scale rebellion against the pigs?
A. the hens
B. the wild rats and rabbits
C. the cows
D. the sheep
19. Squealer's job is to distribute what among the animals?
A. weekly assignments
B. propaganda
C. rations
D. reading materials
20. Which of the following is not a slogan in Animal Farm?
A. "Four legs good, two legs better"
B. "All animals are equal / But some animals are more equal than others"
C. "War is peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strength"
D. "Long live Comrade Napoleon"
21. Which of the following is/are most clearly an example of propaganda?
A. the reductions of rations
B. the pigs' decision to wear clothing
C. Squealer's optimistic statistics
D. the original Seven Commandments
22. The threat of what scares the animals into submission?
A. Jones's return
B. Pilkington's atrocities
C. a trip to the glue factory
D. Old Major's exhumation
23. Which of the following is NOT one of the Seven Commandments?
A. "No animal shall kill any other animal"
B. "No animal shall sleep in a bed"
C. "No animal shall dishonor his father"
D. "No animal shall drink alcohol"
24. The pigs break all of the Seven Commandments EXCEPT
A. "All animals are equal"
B. they break all of them
C. "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"
D. "No animal shall drink alcohol"
25. When the animals tour the farmhouse, they discover that the Joneses lived in
A. denial
B. sin
C. luxury
D. squalor
26. Which animal is absent from Old Major's big meeting?
A. Mollie
B. Clover
C. Benjamin
D. Moses
27. According to old Major, what is Man?
A. "the guiding light in the quest for animal equality"
B. "the thought police of animal lives"
C. "the most mysterious animal on Earth"
D. "the only animal that consumes without producing"
28. Whom does Napoleon blame for the windmill's destruction?
A. the rebellious hens
B. the four dissenting pigs
C. Boxer
D. Snowball
29. What does Napoleon do to falsely convince the outside world of Animal Farm's
prosperity?
A. he reduces rations in order to send more goods to Willington
B. he sends Squealer to town to read false statistics to the humans
C. he executes animals in order to decrease the farm's population
D. he shows Whymper the food bins, which are made to look full
30. What does Napoleon mistake for the onset of death?
A. hypothermia
B. drunkenness
C. hallucinations
D. coccidiosis