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Animal Farm - Chapters 7 – 8

Study Questions
1. Why did the hens have to give up their eggs?

They had to give up their eggs because Napoleon need them to sell them and have money to buy food
For all the animals. If they didn’t give up their eggs they wouldn’t eat.

2. How has Snowball's role been changed by the end of Chapter 6?

Snowball’s role has change from leader and friend to enemy, because Napoleon convince everyone that
Snowball has been with humans since the start now he is a “scapegoat”.

3. Why did Napoleon begin executing animals?

Because he realized that most of the animals had been in touch and talking in secret with Snowball so
He decided that to make animals loyal and afraid to him he started to execute them.

4. Whom did Boxer blame for the executions? What was his solution?

Boxer blame it on everyone, he said “it must have been due to some fault in ourselves” and he´s
Solution was to work harder, thing that said almost in all the book.
5. Why did the animals sing the "Beasts of England" song slowly and mournfully as they were
gathered on the knoll?

Because they were really sad and try to do and say something, but they couldn’t find the words they
they Start singing Beats of England because even though they did their revolution and no man was
controlling them, their dream was never so long so far so impossible. Also, they were sad for all their
friends and colleagues that died.

6. Why was the singing of "Beasts of England" banned?

The reason that Napoleon and Squealer told everyone was because it was a song of revolution and they
Already rebelled, their society was good, and dreams were accomplished. But the real reason was
because Napoleon knew that this song will remind everyone That their dreams didn’t come true, and
napoleon didn’t want the animals to remember that.

7. In what ways has Napoleon set himself apart from the other animals?

Napoleon set him self apart by: sleeping in beds, he had bodyguard’s, he was not seen in public very
Often and other things, also besides treating everyone bad and being like a dictator.

8. How did Frederick cheat Napoleon?

Frederick cheated napoleon by paying the timber with forged banknotes,

9. What moved the animals to attack Frederick and his men at the Battle of the Windmill?
Frederik and his men attacked the windmill, they drilled and hammered the windmill, they blew it to
Pieces and destroy almost everything. All the animals were mad t at that and attack the humans,
Napoleon send his dogs to chase the humans, they surrender. Animals won but most of them were
Injured.
10. Why was Comrade Napoleon "dying"?

In few words Napoleon wasn’t dying, he was too drunk. Because after the battel of the windmill the pigs
Found whiskey and Napoleon had a little too much so he got sick of it or in common words, drunk.

Vocabulary: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are sentences from Animal Farm in which vocabulary words appear. Read the sentence. Use any
clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write your own sentence
using that word, then share your sentence with classmates. Write out your classmates’ sentence too.

1. Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about
Animal Farm.

Your sentence:

Your classmates’ sentence:

2. For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes.
Your sentence:

Your classmates’ sentence:

3. "For we have reason to think that some of Snowball's secret agents are lurking among us at this
moment!"

Your sentence:

Your classmates’ sentence:

4. Napoleon appeared to change countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go . . . .
Your sentence:

Your classmates’ sentence:

5. Presently the tumult died down.

Your sentence:

Your classmates’ sentence:

6. As the summer wore on, and the windmill neared completion, the rumors of an impending
treacherous attack grew stronger and stronger.

Your sentence:

Your classmates’ sentence:

7. In addition, four pigeons were sent to Foxwood with a conciliatory message, which it was hoped
might re-establish good relations with Pilkington.

Your sentence:

Your classmates’ sentence:

Doublespeak – A whole lot of gobbledygook
Identify examples of doublespeak from Animal Farm. What impact does doublespeak play in the plot
of novel?

A few examples of doublespeak in animal farm are: when pigs are called leaders (and they are actually
Tyrants), when Napoleon did all his statements and speeches that were Inflated language and in
General Napoleon was such a doublespeaker because he sometimes says some things and mean others
And other times he said something but kept the truth to himself. And, in general, there is a lot of
Gobbledygook since the begging because mostly they say things with a lot of words to make them
Speech’s more formal, more controversial and an example of that is Old major in all chapter 1-2
Because he seeks like for all the night talking about revolution and animals dreams and instead of saying
Like “okay we have to stop depending on humans and start to make ourselves some power” he said all
His thought’s and stuff. I think the impact that makes in the novel is to make everything more heroic and
Dramatic, its hard to understand but once you understand the doublespeak everything makes sense
And also, is like a good comparison between the Russian revolution and well, the book.