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George Orwell - Animal Farm – Worksheet 2 – Chapters 3-5

Comprehension and discussion questions – Answer the following questions while referring to the text and
providing examples from the text to support your ideas.
Chapter 3
1) How well did the animals work together? Why do you think so? Are the animals happy at getting rid of Mr.
Jones?
Which animals seemed unchanged since the Rebellion? Why? (p. 17)

2) Are all the animals equal?

3) Drag the animal's flag. What is the meaning of the individual symbols on the flag? (p. 18)

4) What happened every Sunday during the ceremony? (p. 18)

5) What happened to the Commandments? Why do you think the pigs introduced one maxim1 instead? (p. 20)

6) Who was taking the milk? How was the disappearance explained? Name at least one of the arguments that
were used to explain why the milk was going to the pigs. For whose sake do the pigs say this happened? (pp. 15,
21)

7) Why do the pigs point out to the fact that Mr. Jones might come back? What effect does it have on animals?

Chapter 4
1) Describe the relationship between Mr. Pilkington, Mr. Frederick and Mr. Jones. (pp. 22-23)

2) How did Napoleon and Snowball spread the news of the rebellion to the animals on neighbouring farms? What
effect did the news have on the other animals? (p. 23)

3) What happened during the battle? (pp. 24-25)

4) What does Boxer regret? How do the pigs react to him regretting it?
(p. 25)

5) What happened during the burial of the killed sheep? (p. 26)

6) What human rituals did the animals use to celebrate their victory?
What is happening in the picture? (p. 26)

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According to Immanuel Kant, a maxim is a subjective principle or rule, that the will of an individual uses in making a decision.
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Chapter 5
1) What happened to Mollie? What is the difference between Mollie and Boxer?

2) What idea did Snowball have to improve conditions on the farm? How did Napoleon’s attitude to the idea
change throughout the chapter? Why? (p. 29)

3) At the meeting about the windmill, Snowball begins to win over the animals. What does Napoleon do about this?
What happens to Snowball? (pp. 31-32)

4) Which animals in particular help Napoleon in persuading the other animals to agree with him? How do they do
it?

5) How had decisions been made on the farm? What happened after Snowball was kicked out? (p. 28)

6) How was Snowball described after he was expelled? (p. 33)

7) What phrase always stopped any arguments from the animals? What are other means of manipulating the
animals?

8) Look again at the Seven Commandments. Which one is no longer in effect?

Focus for next chapters2

• What things went wrong at Animal Farm?
• How did the Commandments change? (refer to the table on handout 1)
• What do you think happened to Snowball? Do the animals care?
• How did the Windmill project develop?

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Overview of characters: Animal Farm [online]. Accessed on 1/12/2008. URL:
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/mwebb/animal_farm_by_george_orwell.htm