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Animal Farm Quiz

Ch. 5-7
Matching I

1. _________ pretext a. to be at rest or calm

2. _________ publican b. capable of being used for crop production
3. _________ manifestly c. requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance
4. _________ factions d. to take out of place; unearth
5. _________ eloquence e. something that is put forth to hide a real purpose
6. _________ sordid f. a person who owns or runs a pub or tavern
7. _________ articulate g. perceived by the eye as apparent or obvious
8. _________ disinterred h. a group within a large group, party, or government
9. _________laborious i. language used easily and fluently
10. _________ arable j. meanly selfish or self-seeking
11. _________ repose k. the quality of being persuasive or moving

Matching II

12. _________ perpendicularity a. the practice of killing newborn infants

13. _________ flagstaff b. flag pole
14. _________ malignity c. face or facial expression
15. _________chaff d. vertical; straight up and down
16. _________ mangels e. without exception or conditions; absolute
17. _________ infanticide f. intense ill will
18. _________ capitulated g. to stun or shock
19. _________ coccidiosis h. straw cut up for fodder
20. _________ stupefied i. infectious disease caused by parasites
21. _________ categorically j. a type of beet; made for livestock to eat
22. _________ countenance k. to surrender unconditionally

Multiple Choice

23. Whom does Napoleon blame for the windmill's destruction?

A. Snowball
B. Boxer
C. the rebellious hens
D. the four dissenting pigs

24. What does Napoleon do to falsely convince the outside world of Animal Farm's prosperity?
A. he shows Whymper the food bins, which are made to look full
B. he sends Squealer to town to read false statistics to the humans
C. he executes animals in order to decrease the farm's population
D. he reduces rations in order to send more goods to Willingdon
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25. Napoleon forces the hens to sell their eggs in order to pay for
A. sheets
B. grain
C. machinery
D. medicine

26. What is one of the hens' tactics of defiance during their strike?
A. they throw eggs at the farmhouse
B. they lay their eggs in the rafters
C. they spread coccidiosis to the other animals
D. they hatch their eggs at record speed

27. How does Napoleon retaliate against the hens?

A. he murders every one of them
B. he stops their rations
C. he adds eggs to the pigs' rations
D. he buys new hens

28. Napoleon negotiates with Frederick and Pilkington, who want to buy Animal Farm's supply of
A. barley
B. timber
C. cow's milk
D. limestone

29. Napoleon conducts a public inspection of whose secret activities?

A. Jones's
B. Snowball's
C. Pilkington's
D. Frederick's

30. Boxer protests the idea that

A. Snowball was on Jones's side in the Battle of the Cowshed
B. the windmill was never Snowball's idea
C. the pigs should be allowed to drink alcohol
D. Napoleon is always right

31. At the assembly, why don't the dogs drag Boxer out to confess?
A. he is lying in his stall, injured
B. he is too strong for them
C. he has already been taken away
D. he has said nothing wrong

32. On whom do the 'traitorous' animals blame their misdeeds?

A. Snowball
B. Frederick
C. Jones
D. Napoleon
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33. Despite the terror of the public executions, Clover believes that
A. the pigs are misleading the animals deliberately
B. Snowball should have been the leader of Animal Farm
C. the animals are better off than they were in Jones's days
D. the animals are not to blame for the evil influences among them

34. According to Squealer, what did the executions end?

A. the Battle of the Windmill
B. the Battle of the Cowshed
C. the period of hardship
D. the Rebellion

35. According to Squealer, why are the animals not to sing "Beasts of England" anymore?
A. it is obsolete
B. it is an ugly song
C. it is pessimistic
D. it resembles human songs

36. What character has composed Animal Farm's new anthem?

A. Squealer
B. Pinkeye
C. Minimus
D. Napoleon

37. What character adopts the personal maxim, "I will work harder"?
A. Clover
B. Snowball
C. Boxer
D. Benjamin

38. Which class of creatures stages its own small-scale rebellion against the pigs?
A. the sheep
B. the hens
C. the cows
D. the wild rats and rabbits

39. The threat of what scares the animals into submission?

A. a trip to the glue factory
B. Jones's return
C. Old Major's exhumation
D. Pilkington's atrocities

40. Which of the following is NOT one of the Seven Commandments?

A. "No animal shall sleep in a bed"
B. "No animal shall dishonor his father"
C. "No animal shall drink alcohol"
D. "No animal shall kill any other animal"