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Why is Animal Farm an allegory?
What is Animalism?
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What does Boxer represent?
How does Mr. Frederick trick Napoleon?
Why does Mollie leave Animal Farm?
Why does Snowball want to build a windmill?
What is Snowball’s role at the Battle of the Cowshed?
Does Snowball ever return to Animal Farm after Napoleon’s dogs chase him away?
Why do the animals confess to being traitors?
Why does Napoleon blame Snowball for everything that goes wrong on the farm?
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Why does Napoleon change the Seven Commandments?
What does Boxer’s death represent?
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1
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What is Boxer's motto?
"Four legs good, two legs bad"
"I will work harder!"
"For the love of pigs"
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
2
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What do the animals do every Sunday morning?
Clean the barn
Gather in prayer and songs led by Moses
Raise a flag and hold a meeting to vote on resolutions
Walk proudly through town taunting the humans
3
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Who does the harvest for the animals?
They sell timber and eggs to pay for human farmhands to help out.
The pigs do most of the work, though Boxer helps.
Boxer does most of the work, and the other animals clean up and make him food.
They do it themselves, adapting human tools to their needs.
4
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What does Snowball make the central tenet of Animalism?
"All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others."
"Animals of the world, unite!"
"Napoleon is always right."
"Four legs good, two legs bad."
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What reason does Squealer give for the pigs taking all the apples and milk?
That food would make the other animals sick.
The animals need to learn a lesson in sacrifice.
They need it for their brain work.
The pigs will die without it.
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