Animal Farm Study Guide

Which animal hides during the Battle of the Cowshed?

Boxer

Clover

Jessie

Mollie

To whom does Napoleon sell the farm’s pile of timber?

Mr. Pilkington

Mr. Frederick

Mr. Jones

Snowball

How does Napoleon express his contempt for Snowball’s windmill plans?

By spitting on them

By giving a scathing speech

By urinating on them

By writing Snowball a letter

Who reduces the ideals of Animalism to the phrase “Four legs good, two legs bad”?

Snowball

Napoleon

Squealer

Boxer

Who teaches the sheep to chant “Four legs good, two legs better”?

Napoleon

Moses

Clover

Squealer

What is Sugarcandy Mountain?

The name of the lullaby that Napoleon forces the pigeons to sing to his thirty-one piglets

The idea of animal heaven propagated by Moses the raven

The setting for the story that Mollie tells to the lambs

The mountain visible on Animal Farm’s horizon

How many letters is Boxer able to learn?

Four—A through D

Zero

Six—the number of different letters in Napoleon’s name

All twenty-six, plus certain letters in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet

Which of the pigs proves the best writer?

Napoleon

Squealer

Snowball

Curly

Which pig writes the poem lauding Napoleon?

Squealer

Snowball

Minimus

Napoleon himself

What does Napoleon rename Animal Farm in his toast at the end of the novel?

Napoleon Farm

Pig Farm

Freedonia

The Manor Farm

Why does Napoleon believe that he is dying the morning after he drinks the whisky?

Because he feels a bizarre desire to leave Animal Farm

Because he has a miserable hangover

Because he was visited by the vengeful ghost of Snowball during a drunken trance

Because he was visited by the vengeful ghost of Old Major during a drunken trance

With whom does Napoleon play cards at the end of the novel?

Mr. Frederick

Mr. Jones

Mr. Wiltshire

Mr. Pilkington

What is the name of the quasi-Marxist socialist philosophy advocated by Napoleon and Snowball?

Porcinism

Animalism

Communalism

Fourleggism

What are Boxer’s maxims?

Snowball is always right” and “For the glory of Animal Farm”

“I will work harder” and “For the glory of Animal Farm”

“I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right”

“Snowball is always right” and “I will work harder”

Which animal voluntarily leaves the farm?

Mollie

Boxer

Squealer

Napoleon

What is Boxer’s ultimate fate?

He dies of old age.

The windmill falls on him.

Napoleon sells him to a glue factory.

Mr. Whymper shoots him.

What is Mr. Jones’s main vice?

Lust

Alcohol

Gambling

Cigars

Which of the following pigs composes the song that replaces “Beasts of England”?

Maximus

Minimus

Snowball

Napoleon

What title does Napoleon eventually assume for himself?

King of the Animals

Lord of Manor Farm

President of the Republic

God of Beasts

Which animal refuses to become excited about the windmill?

Old Major

Old Benjamin

Boxer

Clover

What is the reason for the windmill’s initial collapse?

Snowball sabotages it.

The farmers blow it up with dynamite.

It falls in a storm.

Napoleon sabotages it and frames Snowball

Which animal discovers the truth about Boxer’s destination when the pigs load him into a cart claiming that he is being taken to a doctor?

Mollie

Muriel

Clover

Benjamin

Which Russian leader does Snowball most resemble?

Lenin

Trotsky

Stalin

Gorbachev

Which Russian leader does Napoleon most resemble?

Stalin

Trotsky

Tsar Nicholas

Khrushchev

What Russian institution does the raven Moses evoke?

The Secret Police

The Congress

The Russian Orthodox Church

The education system