Animal Farm Quiz

Front 1

Who first introduces the idea of an animal-controlled society to the farm animals?

Back 1

Old Major

Front 2

After Old Major’s death, which of these characters take a leadership position on the farm?

Back 2

Boxer

Front 3

Which of these animals is least enthusiastic about life on the farm after the Rebellion?

Back 3

Mollie

Front 4

How does Moses attempt to placate the animals?

Back 4

By telling them stories of Sugarcandy Mountain

Front 5

The Seven Commandments are eventually reduced to an altered version of which one of the original commandments?

Back 5

The Seventh Commandment

Front 6

Napoleon symbolizes which of the following figures in the Bolshevik Revolution?

Back 6

Stalin

Front 7

Mollie is upset with the changes in Animal Farm after the animals evict Mr. Jones because:

Back 7

She misses sugar cubes and hair ribbons

Front 8

The animal who best symbolizes the proletariat in the novel is:

Back 8

Boxer

Front 9

What is the name of the philosophy inspired by Old Major’s vision and developed by the pigs?

Back 9

Animalism

Front 10

Old Major was able to observe the inequities on the farm because:

Back 10

He was a show animal with leisure time

Front 11

At the end of the novel, Boxer is rewarded for years of loyal service by:

Back 11

Being sold to the slaughterhouse

Front 12

The animal who is skeptical of Animal Farm, but is equally as pessimistic about life under any alternate form of leadership, is:

Back 12

Benjamin

Front 13

The windmill is destroyed how many times in the novel?

Back 13

Two

Front 14

The animal that is driven from Animal Farm but allowed to return at the end of the novel is:

Back 14

Moses

Front 15

What does Napoleon do that enrages the hens?

Back 15

Sells their eggs

Front 16

When the animals complain that the pigs are sleeping in beds, which violates the Seven Commandments, how does Squealer explain away this apparent inconsistency?

Back 16

By changing the Commandment to prohibit sleeping in a bed with sheets

Front 17

How do the animals gain proof that Squealer has been changing the Commandments?

Back 17

They see Squealer changing the writing on the barn wall

Front 18

Which of these things is not something the pigs do that make them seem like humans at the end of the novel?

Back 18

Eat meat

Front 19

After liberating the farm in the Battle of Cowshed, which of these things do the animals destroy in a bonfire?

Back 19

tools and whips

Front 20

Which animals are used by Napoleon as a way of intimidating the other animals?

Back 20

The dogs