Animal Farm Board Game Answer

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1. In Animal Farm, Orwell criticizes
primarily which world leader?
a. Leon Trotsky
b. Adolf Hitler
c. Joseph Stalin
d. Vladimir Lenin
2. Orwell completed Animal Farm
during what international conflict?
a. The Russo-Japanese War
b. World War II
c. The Great War
d. The Cold War
3. Animal Farm is best described as a
cautionary tale against

a. Harrison Bergeron

b. Clover

b. Nineteen Eighty-Four

c. Boxer

c. The Master and Margarita

d. Benjamin

d. Brave New World

10.In what year did the Russian
Revolution occur?
a. 1939
b. 1917
c. 1905
d. 1924
11.The initial Soviet campaign to
quash internal dissidence was
called

18.Which class of creatures stages its

own small-scale rebellion against
the pigs?
a. the wild rats and rabbits
b. the hens
c. the sheep
d. the cows
19.Squealer's job is to distribute what
among the animals?
a. rations

a. the Five Year Plan

b. propaganda

a. communism

b. the Decembrists' Revolt

c. reading materials

b. totalitarianism

c. the Red Terror

d. weekly assignments

c. Marxism

d. the Cold War

d. National socialism
4. Animal Farm fits all of the following
genres except

12.What event allowed Stalin to

assume Soviet leadership?
a. Lenin's death

a. allegory

b. The February Revolution

b. satire

c. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

c. farce

d. Hitler's ascension

d. fable
5. In what armed conflict did Orwell
participate voluntarily?

13.What character in Animal Farm

represents Karl Marx?
a. Snowball

a. the Red Terror

b. Napoleon

b. the Spanish Civil War

c. Benjamin

c. the French Congo Uprising

d. Old Major

d. the February Revolution

6. Orwell played all of the following
roles during World War II except

14.What character in Animal Farm

represents Trotsky?
a. Snowball

a. war correspondent

b. Napoleon

b. secret police agent

c. Squealer

c. member of the Home Guard

d. Boxer

d. propagandist
7. Which of the following is true of
Orwell?

15.What character in Animal Farm

represents Stalin?

20.Which of the following is not a

slogan in Animal Farm?
a. "War is peace / Freedom is
Slavery / Ignorance is
Strength"
b. "All animals are equal / But
some animals are more equal
than others"
c. "Long live Comrade Napoleon"
d. "Four legs good, two legs
better"
21.Which of the following is/are most
clearly an example of propaganda?
a. the original Seven
Commandments
b. the pigs' decision to wear
clothing
c. the reductions of rations
d. Squealer's optimistic
statistics
22.The threat of what scares the
animals into submission?
a. a trip to the glue factory
b. Old Major's exhumation

a. Frederick

c. Jones's return

a. he was a poor student

b. Squealer

d. Pilkington's atrocities

b. he died before the age of 50

c. the Horse-Slaughterer

c. he embraced luxury

d. Napoleon

d. he never married
8. Before Animal Farm, Orwell was
known primarily as a(n)

16.The dogs in Animal Farm can be

said to represent
a. peasants

a. soldier

b. educated elites

b. member of the bourgeoisie

c. foreign diplomats

c. teacher

d. secret police

d. essayist
9. Orwell's other extremely successful
novel is called

17.What character adopts the

personal maxim, "I will work
harder"?
a. Snowball

23.Which of the following is NOT one

of the Seven Commandments?
a. "No animal shall dishonor
his father"
b. "No animal shall sleep in a bed"
c. "No animal shall drink alcohol"
d. "No animal shall kill any other
animal"
24.The pigs break all of the Seven
Commandments EXCEPT
a. they break all of them
b. "No animal shall drink alcohol"

c. "Whatever goes upon two legs

is an enemy"
d. "All animals are equal"
25.When the animals tour the
farmhouse, they discover that the
Joneses lived in
a. squalor
b. sin
c. denial
d. luxury
26.From whom does Napoleon buy
neighboring farmland?
a. Mr. Frederick
b. Mr. Jones
c. Mr. Pilkington
d. Mr. Whymper
27.What does Napoleon claim was his
idea, which was really Snowballs
idea?
a. building a bridge

b. Napoleon
c. Old Major
d. Snowball
32.Who lies to the animals when he
tells them that Boxer died
peacefully at the hospital?

39.What country is the novels

setting?
a. USA (Connecticut)
b. Nova Scotia

a. Clover

c. Ireland

b. Napoleon

d. England

c. Snowball
d. Squealer
33.Who says the following: Do not
imagine, comrades, that leadership
is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is
a deep and heavy responsibility.
a. Boxer
b. Old Major
c. Snowball
d. Squealer
34.Who says the following: Will there
still be sugar after the rebellion?

b. building a well

a. Mollie

c. building a windmill

b. Old Major

d. building an arsenal

c. Snowball

28.What is the name of Mr. Jones farm

before the animals rename it
Animal Farm?

d. Napoleon sabotages it and

frames Snowball.

d. Squealer
35.Who is Benjamin?

40.What does Napoleon rename

Animal Farm in his toast at the end
of the novel?
a. Napoleon Farm
b. Pig Farm
c. Freedonia
d. The Manor Farm
41.What is the name of the quasiMarxist socialist philosophy
advocated by Napoleon and
Snowball?
a. Porcinism
b. Animalism
c. Communalism
d. Fourleggism
42.What is Boxers ultimate fate?
a. He dies of old age.
b. The windmill falls on him.

a. Chestnut Hills Farm

a. the silly cat

b. Jones Farm

b. an old donkey

c. Napoleon sells him to a glue

factory.

c. Manor Farm

c. a bird

d. Mr. Whymper shoots him.

d. Old Farm

d. a human

29.What is the single law that the

Seven Commandments of
Animalism are reduced to?
a. All animals are equal, but
some animals are more
equal than others.
b. All animals must sacrifice for
the common good of the whole.
c. Only pigs are free.
d. Only pigs shall sleep in beds.
30.What name do the animals give to
the battle in which Mr. Jones is
defeated when he comes back to
claim the farm?
a. Snowballs Victory
b. The Battle of the Pig Sty

36.Which animal hides during the

Battle of the Cowshed?

31.Who inspires the animals to begin

planning their rebellion?
a. Boxer

a. Old Major

a. Boxer

b. Old Benjamin

b. Clover

c. Boxer

c. Jessie

d. Clover

d. Mollie
37.Which animal refuses to become
excited about the windmill?
a. Old Major
b. Old Benjamin
c. Boxer
d. Clover
38.What is the reason for the
windmills initial collapse?

c. The Battle of the Cowshed

d. The Battle of the Stable

43.Which animal refuses to become

excited about the windmill?

44.Which animal discovers the truth

about Boxers destination when the
pigs load him into a cart claiming
that he is being taken to a doctor?
a. Mollie
b. Muriel
c. Clover
d. Benjamin
45.With whom does Napoleon play
cards at the end of the novel?
a. Mr. Frederick

a. Snowball sabotages it.

b. The farmers blow it up with
dynamite.
c.

It falls in a storm.

b. Mr. Jones
c. Mr. Wiltshire
d. Mr. Pilkington