Prepare for your Animal Farm reading quiz with these practice questions covering chapters 1-5. This guide covers plot events, character analysis, literary devices, and thematic elements.
Q: What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major?
Answer: They are in order of importance.The pigs and dogs are up front and the other animals are behind them
Q: According to Major, what is the cause of all animals’ problems?
Answer: Humans/ Man
Q: What motto does Major give the animals?
Answer: 1. For legs good. Two legs bad.or2. If you get rid of Jones you will have freedom and happiness.
Q: What are the commandments Major gives the animals?
Answer: – Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.- Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend.- No animal shall wear clothes.- No animal shall sleep in a bed.- No animal shall drink alcohol.- No animal shall kill any other animal.- All animals are equal.They’re vices because if animals did that it would be like breaking a law.
Q: Why do animals like the song “Beasts of England” so much?
Answer: The animals like it so much because it talks about freedom and what it would be like after the rebellion. Also it makes them feel strong. It appeals to happiness, confidence, and excitement.
Q: After Major’s death what happens to the idea of rebelling against man?
Answer: They pass the rebellion on to the other pigs (Snowball & Napoleon). They pass it to them because they are the smartest animals on the farm.
Q: Why don’t the pigs like the pet raven Moses’ stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?
Answer: Because they think the stories of Sugar Candy Mtn. are lies, and he never works.
Q: What causes the animals to finally rebel against Mr. Jones and his four farmhands?
Answer: Mr. Jones would forget to feed the animals.
Q: When Jones and his people have been chased from the farm, what do the animals do?
Answer: They take over the farm, and celebrate their victory.
Q: What do the animals do to the farm & house once they have taken over?
Answer: They get rid of everything that was used to hurt the animals. They also destroy Jones’s belongings.
Q: How does the behavior of the pigs foreshadow their eventual leadership?
Answer: The pigs take care of the other animals. They tell them what to do and what no to do.
Q: What differences between the pigs and the other animals occur in chapters 2-5?
Answer: The pigs control all the other animals but they don’t do any work. They keep the apples for themselves, and they consider themselves to be better than the other animals.
Q: What are Napoleon’s ideas about education?
Answer: He thinks that education should be more important to the younger animals.
Q: How is squealer able to convince the other animals to accept whatever Napoleon decides?
Answer: He lies to them.
Q: Describe the Battle of the Cowshed.
Answer: The animals defend themselves against the the local farmers who try to take back Animal Farm.
Q: What was Snowball’s part in the Battle of cowshed?
Answer: Snowball planned the attack.
Q: Where is Napoleon during the battle?
Answer: He was nowhere to be found.
Q: What is the significance of the gun’s placement at the foot of the flagpole?
Answer: It symbolizes the victory in the Battle of Cowshed.
Q: Why does Mollie run away from the farm?
Answer: She didn’t enjoy the lifestyle on the farm.
Q: Explain the windmill controversy from Napoleon’s point of view.
Answer: Napoleon didn’t like the idea of the windmill he wanted to animals to spend their time increasing food production.
Q: What changes does Napoleon make after his dogs chase Snowball off the farm?
Answer: That all decisions would ultimately be made by Napoleon and that the animals would meet every Sunday to get their orders and sing
Q: Why don’t the other animals protest Napoleon’s decisions?
Answer: None of them were smart enough to find good arguments.
Q: How the animals now arrange themselves when they enter the barn in Chapter 5 to receive their orders, as compared with the description in Chapter I.
Answer: The three pigs are above all the other animals, the dogs sit around the pigs in a semi circle, and the rest are on the floor facing the pigs.
Q: What is the importance of the dogs’ accompanying Squealer when he comes to talk to the animals?
Answer: The dogs act as bodyguards.