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 |