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Animal Farm

George Orwell

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1. Which animal hides during the Battle of the Cowshed?

(A) Boxer

(B) Clover

(D) Mollie

2. To whom does Napoleon sell the farm's pile of timber?

(A) Mr. Pilkington

(B) Mr. Frederick

(D) Snowball

3. How does Napoleon express his contempt for Snowball's windmill plans?

(A) By spitting on them

(B) By giving a scathing speech

(D) By writing Snowball a letter

4. Who reduces the ideals of Animalism to the phrase “Four legs good, two legs bad”?

(A) Snowball

(B) Napoleon

(D) Boxer

5. Who teaches the sheep to chant “Four legs good, two legs better”?

(A) Napoleon

(B) Moses

(D) Squealer

6. What is Sugarcandy Mountain?

(A) The name of the lullaby that Napoleon forces the pigeons to sing to his thirty-one piglets

(B) The idea of animal heaven propagated by Moses the raven

(D) The mountain visible on Animal Farm's horizon

7. How many letters is Boxer able to learn?

(A) Four—A through D

(B) Zero

(D) All twenty-six, plus certain letters in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet

8. Which of the pigs proves the best writer?

(A) Napoleon

(B) Squealer

(D) Curly

9. Which pig writes the poem lauding Napoleon?

(A) Squealer

(B) Snowball

(D) Napoleon himself

10. What does Napoleon rename Animal Farm in his toast at the end of the novel?

(A) Napoleon Farm

(B) Pig Farm

(D) The Manor Farm

11. Why does Napoleon believe that he is dying the morning after he drinks the whisky?

(A) Because he feels a bizarre desire to leave Animal Farm

(B) Because he has a miserable hangover

(D) Because he was visited by the vengeful ghost of Old Major during a drunken trance

12. With whom does Napoleon play cards at the end of the novel?

(A) Mr. Frederick

(B) Mr. Jones

(D) Mr. Pilkington

13. What is the name of the quasi-Marxist socialist philosophy advocated by Napoleon and Snowball?

(A) Porcinism

(B) Animalism

(D) Fourleggism

14. What are Boxer's maxims?

(A) Snowball is always right” and “For the glory of Animal Farm”

(B) “I will work harder” and “For the glory of Animal Farm”

(D) “Snowball is always right” and “I will work harder”

15. Which animal voluntarily leaves the farm?

(A) Mollie

(B) Boxer

(D) Napoleon

16. What is Boxer's ultimate fate?

(A) He dies of old age

(B) The windmill falls on him

(D) Mr. Whymper shoots him

17. What is Mr. Jones's main vice?

(A) Lust

(B) Alcohol

(D) Cigars

18. Which of the following pigs composes the song that replaces “Beasts of England”?

(A) Maximus

(B) Minimus

(D) Napoleon

19. What title does Napoleon eventually assume for himself?

(A) King of the Animals

(B) Lord of Manor Farm

(D) God of Beasts

20. Which animal refuses to become excited about the windmill?

(A) Old Major

(B) Old Benjamin

(D) Clover

21. What is the reason for the windmill's initial collapse?

(A) Snowball sabotages it

(B) The farmers blow it up with dynamite

(D) Napoleon sabotages it and frames Snowball

22. Which animal discovers the truth about Boxer's destination when the pigs load him into a cart claiming that he is being taken to a doctor?

(A) Mollie

(B) Muriel

(D) Benjamin

23. Which Russian leader does Snowball most resemble?

(A) Lenin

(B) Trotsky

(D) Gorbachev

24. Which Russian leader does Napoleon most resemble?

(A) Stalin

(B) Trotsky

(D) Khrushchev

25. What Russian institution does the raven Moses evoke?

(A) The Secret Police

(B) The Congress

(D) The education system

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