ENGLISH 10 (Golden Secondary) NAME...... SCORE: /11
PART A: EDITING SKILLS‹Apostrophes, Commas, and Quotation Marks.
Value: 11 marks (one mark per question) Suggested Time: 11 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS:The following passage has been broken into numbered sentences which may contain problems in grammar, usage, word choice, and punctuation. Some sentences are correct. No sentence contains more than one error. If you find an error, select the underlined part that must be changed in order to make the sentence correct. Using an HB pencil, completely fill in the circle that corresponds to your choice. If there is no error, completely fill in circle D (no error).
Adapted from Internet Article ³Review of George Orwell¹s Animal Farm²
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1.George Orwell¹s ³Animal Farm² has long been regarded as one of the
(A)(B)
great novels of the twentieth century.
(C)(D) No error.
2. Expressing Orwell¹s disenchantment with the development of Commu-
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nism under Stalin, Animal Farm is a clever satire that transfers politics
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into what otherwise might be considered a childrens story: the setting
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is a pastoral farm with animals that can talk.(D) No error.
3. Given recent technological advances that have dramatically increased
the realism of animal performances, Animal Farm is a natural choice for
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a new film treatment, this time with real animals rather than animated
(B)(C)
one¹s.
(C continued)(D) No error.
4. The story centre¹s on a group of abused and neglected animals in the
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care of the feeble drunkard Mr. Jones.
(C)(D) No error.
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5. The aged Old Major, (representing Lenin), tells the other animals of his
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utopian vision of a farm where animals have set themselves free from
humans, living in equality under the banner of ³Animalism.²
(C)(D) No error.
6.Revolution comes quickly; the animals take over, and declare their
domain ³Animal Farm.².
(C)(D) No error.
7.The pigs, being more intelligent than the other animals, establish
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themselves as the new ruling elite.
(C)(D) No error.
8.Two pigs vie for supremacy, the charismatic Snowball (Trotsky) is intel-
(A)
lectual, dynamic, and bent on exporting the revolution; Napoleon (Stalin)
(B)(C)
is pragmatic, ruthless, and concerned with consolidating his power.(D) No error.
9.Using dogs to enforce his authority, Napoleon drives Snowball out,
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Snowball thus becomes the scapepig for every failure on the farm.
(C)(D) No error.
10.The principles of the revolution are unashamedly violated by the self-
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serving Napoleon and his henchpig, ³Squealer.²
(C)(D) No error.
11.As the famous quote goes, ³All animals are equal, but some are more
(A)
equal than others‹and in his excesses, Napoleon comes to increasingly
(B)
resemble a human, thereby breaking one of Old Major¹s chief precepts.
(C)(D) No error.
What is remarkable about Animal Farm is its staying power as a novel and as a story. As one of the great examples of the genre of satire it is certainly worthy of literary study, but after sixty-plus years,can it still be considered relevant? Animal Farm was written in the 1930s a counter-argument to the socialist idealism of the time. Since then, Stalin¹s crimes have been revealed to all, and Communism itself is mostly discredited. But Animal Farm remains relevant because it contains a universal message beyond the particularities of the politics it is satirizing. Our new millennium will sadly not see the end of totalitarianism and oppression: revolutions will always be perverted by the power-hungry.