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animal farm quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is animal farm about | oppressed individuals who long for freedom but ultimately are corrupted by assuming the very power that had originally oppressed them |
| what does the story trace | the deplorable conditions of mistreated animals who can speak and who exhibit many human characteristics |
| what is animal farm | orwell's critique of the communist system in the former soviet union |
| when was animal farm published | 1945 |
| what is the story about | betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption |
| what is a fable | short; written in either verse or prose, and conveys a clear moral or message |
| fables are the oldest literary forms, what is the earliest preserved fable dated back to and who was the author | 6th century BCE; Aesop(used animal characters to stand for human "types" |
| what were Aesop's fables | instructional tales about human emotions and human behavior |
| what fables did orwell take a short animal fable and expand it to the length of a short novel in the form of an allegory | just so stories |
| what are the 2 levels of meaning in this story | the animals stand for types of people/ideas. the way they interact and the way the plot unfolds says something about the nature of the people/value of ideas |
| what is any type of fiction that has multiple levels of meaning called | allegory |
| what is the surface level of meaning in animal farm | the story about the animals is very moving |
| what is the deeper level of meaning in animal farm | careful critique orwell constructed to comment on soviet russia |
| animal farm has a 3rd, more general level of meaning, what could the pigs symbolize besides specific soviet leaders | tyranny more broadly |
| what does the writer do in satire | attacks a serious issue by presenting it in a ridiculous light or poking fun at it |
| what does orwell use satire for | to expose what he saw as the myth of soviet socialism |
| when does irony result | when there is a disparity between what an audience would expect and what really happens |
| what particular type of irony does orwell use | dramatic; he relies on the difference between what the animals understand and what we understand |
| how is irony shown in the book | we know just what the animals know, but we can see so much more of its significance than they can |
| what does orwell use dramatic irony to create | subtle satire |
| what do critics often consider animal farm to be an allegory to | the russian revolution |
| what is the russian revolution and when did it take place | the czar's gov. was overthrown by the bolshevik's, lead by lenin, when lenin died trotsky and stalin struggled for power. stalin won the battle and deported trotsky to mexico where he was killed by a hit man with an ice pick to the head. |
| what did stalin do when he came into power | moved the soviet union into the modern industrial age. his gov. seized land in order to create collective farms. |
| stalin's 5 year plan was an attempt at what | modernizing the soviet industry |
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