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English B2 Core
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Animal Farm is a what? | Allegory |
| What did the pigs teach themselves to do? | To read |
| Did the name Manor Farm change? | No |
| What did the pigs do to the cows? | Milk the cows |
| Who is the alcoholic owner of Manor Farm? | Mr. Jones |
| Who is the talented poet and songwriter? | Minimus |
| Who is stubborn and cynical? | Benjamin |
| The totalitarian leader of the animals | Napoleon |
| The horse who can't give up ribbons and sugar | Mollie |
| The bird who brings religion to Animal Farm | Moses |
| The farmer who buys the wood from the pigs | Mr. Fredrick |
| The farmer who doesn't get the wood | Mr. Pilkington |
| The pig who designs the windmill | Snowball |
| The horse who is strong willed and hardworking | Boxer |
| The pig who inspires the revolution | Old Major |
| The white goat who can read with the best of all the animals | Muriel |
| Napoleon's "mouthpiece" | Squealer |
| The animals contact to the outside world | Mr. Whymper |
| The motherly horse | Clover |
| "Will there be sugar after the rebellion?" | Mollie |
| "Napoleon is always right." | Boxer because that's all he knows |
| "Above all. . . all animals are equal" | Old Major says this to unite the animals |
| "It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." | Squealer so the pigs get more food and drinks |
| "The only good human being is a dead one." | Snowball says this because he doesn't trust them |
| Although _______ governments have often failed in history, they do reappear from time to time again | Communist |
| What point of view is Animal Farm told in? | Third person omniscient |
| Old Major says the primary reason for all animals' suffering is . . . | Humans |
| Why does Old Major fail to continue speaking out for the rebellion after his big speech? | He died of old age three days afterward. |
| How did the pigs learn how to read? | By using Mr. Jones children's spelling books. |
| Why does Snowball come up with the shortened version of the seven commandments, "Four legs good, two legs bad" | Most of the animals couldn't read and memorize the commandments. |
| How does Squealer justify the pigs keeping the cows' milk for themselves? | They need it to do their work of thinking and if they don't drink it Mr. Jones will come back |
| Why does Napoleon constantly blame Snowball for things? | He needs a scapegoat on which to blame his mistakes and continue to instill fear in the animals. |
| What is Orwell saying about power and equality through Animal Farm's plot? | Absolute equality is impossible because someone will always be corrupted by ideas of power. |
| Which animals stage a rebellion against one of Napoleon's rulings? | The chickens because their eggs are going to be sold |
| Who is the hero of the Battle of the Cowshed? | Boxer |
| How is the last commandment changed? | All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others |
| Czar Nicholas ll | Mr. Jones |
| Lenin/Marx | Old Major |
| Trotsky | Snowball |
| Russia | Animal Farm |
| Stalin | Napoleon |
| The military/police/KGB | The dogs |
| Reliigion | Moses |
| Propaganda | Squealer |
| The working class | Boxer |
| Communism | Animalism |
| A story which characters, places and events stand for or symbolizes something else | Allegory |
| A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs | Communism |
| The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | Satire |
| A short story, typically with animals as characters, and conveying a moral. | Fable |
| An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one | Dystopia |
| Quatrain | A group of 4 lines |
| Couplet | a group of 2 lines |
| What is the name of Karl Marx's famous and influential piece? | Communist Manifesto |
| "From each according to his ______. To each according to his ______" | Abilities, need |
| Who was the leader of Russia before the revolution? | Czar Nicholas ll |
| What had happened to Czar Nicholas ll? | He and his family were executed |
| Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party, and the leader of the revolution? | Vladimir Lenin |
| These two men fight for the power after the death of Lenin | Trotsky and Stalin |
| What is not true about totalitarianism? | Citizens vote in open elections |
| An image is a word or phase that . . . | Appeals to one of the senses |
| An image of an empty house with broken windows and rotting woods creates a feeling of . . . | Loneliness |
| The form of figurative language that uses like, as, or resembles to compare two dissimilar things is . . . | A simile |
| Personification is a kind of metaphor in which . . . | Human qualities are given to something that is not human |
| "The storm clouds wept angry tears" is an example of | Personification |
| "The principal is a rock" is an example of | A metaphor |
| "My bed is as soft as a cloud" is an example of | A simile |
| The words hiss or buzz are examples of-- | Onomatopoeia |
| When a poem is scanned for meter, the reader discovers its-- | Pattern of rhythm |
| A regular pattern of rhyme in a poem is called | Rhyme Scheme |
| Poetry that is written in meter | Has a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Oh, the Old ghOsts of hOme return | Assonance |
| A shepherd's horn of gold echoed in the valley | Imagery |
| In LifeLong Liberation from the sea | Alliteration |
| "Tybalt, you rat catcher, will you walk?" Mercutio wants Tybalt to__ | Fight |
| Why doesn't Romeo want to fight Tybalt at first? | Because Romeo is now related to Tybalt |
| After Mercutio is mortally wounded, he says, "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." What does he mean? | He will be dead tomorrow |
| The prince punishes Romeo by | Banishing him from Verona forever |
| All of the following consequences result from Romeo's killing of Tybalt except | Juliet decides that Paris is more honorable than Romeo |
| Besides Lord Capulet, who surprises Juliet by telling her she should marry Paris? | the Nurse |
| Friar Laurence sets a plan in motion. What is not part of his plan? | Juliet should ride to Mantua immediately |
| In her soliloquy, Juliet admits what? | She fears the potion might not work |
| The Capulets, the nurse, and Paris react to Juliet's supposed death with | Anguished cries of grief |
| Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet ends with | The wedding ceremony becoming a funeral |