10 questions🇬🇧English
🐷 Animal Farm – Year 9
English · Year 9 (KS3) — plot, characters, the Seven Commandments and Orwell's allegory of revolution and power
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Questions
What is the farm called at the very start of the novel, before the animals rebel?
Pinchfield Farm
Willingdon Farm
Foxwood Farm
Manor Farm
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Whose dream and speech in the barn inspire the animals to plan a rebellion?
Snowball
Benjamin
Napoleon
Old Major
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Boxer the cart-horse responds to every hardship with which personal motto?
All animals are equal
Four legs good, two legs bad
I will work harder
Long live Animal Farm
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Which character persuades the animals with clever speeches and long lists of figures that 'prove' life is improving?
Moses
Mollie
Minimus
Squealer
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In Orwell's allegory of the Russian Revolution, which historical figure does Snowball mainly represent?
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Karl Marx
Leon Trotsky
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By the end, the commandments are replaced by one rule. Complete it: 'All animals are equal but…'
pigs are more equal than others
some animals are more important than others
some animals must work harder than others
some animals are more equal than others
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When the pigs move into the farmhouse, which words are secretly added to 'No animal shall sleep in a bed'?
without permission
in the farmhouse
with sheets
after midnight
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Boxer is taken away in a van marked 'Horse Slaughterer'. Who does Squealer claim the van now belonged to?
Mr Pilkington of Foxwood Farm
A vet who had bought it from the knacker
Mr Frederick of Pinchfield Farm
Mr Whymper, Napoleon's solicitor
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Napoleon sells timber to Frederick, who pays with forged banknotes and then attacks. Which real event does this mirror?
The October Revolution of 1917
The Nazi–Soviet Pact and Germany's 1941 invasion
The Tehran Conference of 1943
Stalin's purges of the 1930s
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The final line says it was impossible to say 'which was which' among pigs and men. What does this suggest?
The pigs have sold the farm back to Mr Jones
The pigs have finally achieved true equality
The other animals have overthrown the pigs
The pigs have become just like the human oppressors
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