ANIMAL FARM STUDY GUIDE
DUE DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010
DIRECTIONS: Answer each of the following questions using COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Each question is worth 2 points.
CHAPTER 1 & 2
1. According to Major, what is the cause of all the animals' problems?
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2. What motto does Major give the animals?
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3. What animal is missing from the meeting?
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4. Examine the song “Beasts of England” as poetry. What is the message? Why do the animals like it so much that they memorize it on the spot? To what emotions and needs does it appeal?
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5. After Major's death what happens to the idea of rebelling against man?
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6. Why don’t the pigs like the pet raven Moses' stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?
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7. What causes the animals to finally rebel against Mr. Jones and his four farmhands?
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8. When the humans have been chased from the farm, what do the animals do?
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9. What do the animals do to the farmhouse?
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10. How does the behavior of the pigs foreshadow their eventual leadership positions?
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CHAPTER 3 & 4
13. How successful are the farming operations?
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14. What are Napoleon's ideas about education?
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15. How is Squealer able to convince the other animals to accept whatever Napoleon decides?
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16. What animal seems unchanged by the rebellion?
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17. How are Sundays spent?
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18. Describe the Battle of the Cowshead.
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19. What was Snowball’s part in this battle? Where is Napoleon during the battle?
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20. What is the single maxim (motto) of Animalism?
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21. What further examples of the difference between the pigs and the other animals occur in these two chapters?
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CHAPTER 5 & 6
22. Why does Mollie run away from the farm?
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23. What changes have been made in the weekly meetings over the last year?
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24. Explain the windmill controversy from Snowball’s point of view.
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25. Explain the windmill controversy from Napoleon’s point of view.
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26. What changes does Napoleon make after his dogs chase Snowball off the farm?
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27. Why don't the other animals protest Napoleon's decisions?
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28. What is the importance of the dogs accompanying Squealer when he comes to talk to the animals?
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29. What problems arise regarding the construction of the windmill? How much work are the animals doing? Which animals are crucial in the work?
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30. Why does Napoleon decide to engage in trade with neighboring farms? How do the animals react?
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31. How is the windmill destroyed? Why does Napoleon blame Snowball?
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32. Why does Napoleon insist the windmill must be rebuilt immediately?
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CHAPTERS 7 & 8
33. Why does Napoleon order that the hens' eggs be sold?
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34. How does Napoleon react when the hens' rebel against his orders?
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35. Why does Napoleon revive the threat of the farm being sabotaged by Snowball?
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36. Explain why the animals confessed to being traitors.
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37. Why does Napoleon order the animals to stop singing "Beasts of England?"
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38. What purpose is served by the production figures Squealer reads to the animals?
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39. How is Napoleon becoming more and more like a typical dictator?
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40. Why do the men blow up the windmill?
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41. Why are the animals so easily fooled, even when they find Squealer with a ladder and white paint beside the barn at night?
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CHAPTER 9 & 10
42. What is happening to Boxer physically?
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43. What are living conditions like for all of the animals except the pigs and dogs?
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44. Why does Napoleon allow Moses to return and to tell his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?
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45. What happens to Boxer? How do the animals accept it? When the van takes Boxer away, what is revealed by Benjamin? How does Squealer explain the death of Boxer?
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46. What changes have the years brought to the farm?
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47. How do the animals now feel about their social order, their farm?
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48. All seven commandments are erased. What is the new commandment, and how has it been true from the beginning?
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49. At the conference with neighboring farmers, what new changes does Napoleon point out?
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50. What happens to the pigs' appearance?
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