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Chapter Questions: Answer each of the following questions.  Use complete sentences and give responses that demonstrate higher level thinking.  (Three or four word answers are inadequate.)

Describe Old Major's speech in the barn.  What was the essence of his message?

What does Old Major mean by the following phrase: "All men are enemies, all animals are comrades."

Why do you suppose the animals were so easily led by the pigs?  Would you have been so willing to follow another leader after you had freed yourself of the first one?  Explain.

Describe the Rebellion and its aftermath.

What were the seven commandments?  What notion about the basic nature of man was implicit in all of these commandments?

Tell what you think might have happened to the mild at the end of chapter two.

A Utopia is a place of ideal perfection.  In what way could the farm have been a perfect place for a Utopian community?

Summary: Please summarize the events in chapters 1 & 2. 

Characterization: Please describe each of the following characters based on their actions and what you learn in chapters 1 & 2.

Old Major

Napoleon

Snowball

Squealer

Mollie

Moses

Boxer & Clover

Vocabulary: Find four vocabulary words that are unfamiliar in these chapters.  Write the word and then define it as best you can using the context.  After you have a context definition, look up the word in the dictionary and write the dictionary definition that fits the use of the word in the novel.

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Chapter Questions: Answer each of the following questions.  Use complete sentences and give responses that demonstrate higher level thinking.  (Three or four word answers are inadequate.)

In what ways is Animal Farm becoming a civilized society?  (Give CDs)

Explain the meaning of the following excerpt: "The other animals understood how to vote, but could never think of any resolutions of their own."

What clues do you have that Napoleon and Snowball are vying for power?  (Give CDs)

In what way did Snowball simplify the Seven Commandments?  Why is this new slogan a good propaganda technique?

List the ways in which the pigs set themselves up as the "elite." (Give CDs)

What part does Squealer play in the brainwashing of the animals?

Why are Snowball and Boxer decorated?  How do each feel about their successes?

Summary: Please summarize the events in chapters 3 & 4. 

Characterization: Please describe each of the following characters based on their actions and what you learn in chapters 3 & 4.

Napoleon

Snowball

Squealer

the sheep

Boxer

Mollie

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Chapter Questions: Answer each of the following questions.  Use complete sentences and give responses that demonstrate higher level thinking.  (Three or four word answers are inadequate.)

Describe the controversy between Snowball and Napoleon over the windmill.

What did Napoleon do to Snowball in order to overtake powers?

What argument does Squealer use to keep the animals from protesting Napoleon's takeover?  In what way is this  propaganda?  How does this solidify Napoleon's control over the animals?

Because Boxer believes "Napoleon is always right," his personal motto has become "I will work harder."  What does this reveal about Boxer?

Why was the windmill built after all?  How does Napoleon take credit for its construction?

In what ways do the animals work like slaves on Animal Farm?  Why do they feel that their lives are better even though they are uneasy about the changes?

In what ways does Napoleon benefit from the use of Snowball as a scapegoat?

Summary: Please summarize the events in chapters 5 & 6. 

Literary Devices: Answer the following questions using information in chapters 5 & 6.

A euphemism is an agreeable expression that is substituted for an offensive or insensitive word.  For example, saying someone has "passed on" instead of saying that they died.  Find at least one example of a euphemism in these chapters.

Irony is the use of words to express the opposite of the literal meaning.  What is ironic in Squealer's following speech?  "Do not imagine comrades that leadership is a pleasure!  On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility.  No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.  He would be only too happy to let you make decisions for yourselves, but sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where would we be?"

Vocabulary: Find four vocabulary words that are unfamiliar in these chapters.  Write the word and then define it as best you can using the context.  After you have a context definition, look up the word in the dictionary and write the dictionary definition that fits the use of the word in the novel.

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Chapter Questions: Answer each of the following questions.  Use complete sentences and give responses that demonstrate higher level thinking.  (Three or four word answers are inadequate.)

How does Napoleon make it appear that everything is going well at Animal Farm even though their economy is about to collapse?

What happens to the hens when they threaten Napoleon's power?

Examine the scene of the trial and executions.  According to the way in which the scene is presented, why do the animals confess?  Why does Napoleon want these confessions?  What does this scene demonstrate about the psychology of dictators?

Why does Napoleon tell the animals he is abolishing "Beasts of England"?  What is his real reason for not allowing the song?

What clues are there in these chapters to suggest Napoleon is becoming more like a human? (Give CDs)

Napoleon declares a great victory in the Battle of the Windmill.  How do the animals feel about the Battle?  How have their beliefs been manipulated?

Why was the commandment changed that originally stated, "No animal shall drink alcohol."

Summary: Please summarize the events in chapters 7 & 8. 

Literary Devices: Symbolism

The symbols in the novel function as guidelines for the reader and are indications of the animals' beliefs and feelings.  For example, "Beasts of England" is a symbol of the hope and enthusiasm with which the animals respond to Old Major's vision.  The Windmill is a symbol that changes.  What does the Windmill symbolize when first introduced?  What does the Windmill symbolize later in the novel? 

Vocabulary: Find four vocabulary words that are unfamiliar in these chapters.  Write the word and then define it as best you can using the context.  After you have a context definition, look up the word in the dictionary and write the dictionary definition that fits the use of the word in the novel.

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Chapter Questions: Answer each of the following questions.  Use complete sentences and give responses that demonstrate higher level thinking.  (Three or four word answers are inadequate.)

Elitism is leadership by a socially superior minority group.  In what ways is elitism fostered among the pigs?

According to Napoleon, what was the purpose of the Spontaneous Demonstration?  What was its real purpose?

Why does Napoleon allow Moses to return and remain on the farm?  What is his importance to Napoleon?

Why do the animals on the farm admire Boxer?  Where did the animals think Boxer was sent when he was ill?  Where did he really go?

Animal Farm has become a stratified society with two classes.  What are the two classes?

How has Napoleon become indistinguishable from Mr. Jones?

What began as a paradise for the animals has now ended as the antithesis of Utopia.  Describe the scene at the end of the book when the transformation from pig to human is complete.  What is the new name for Animal Farm?

Summary: Please summarize the events in chapters 7 & 8. 

Literary Devices: Symbolism and Irony

What does the knacker symbolize?

Napoleon is praised by the neighboring farmers for getting more production while providing less food for his "laborers."  Why is this praise ironic?