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Animal Farm Study Questions
Animal Farm Study Questions
Chapter 1
1. What is significant about how the animals arrange themselves as they gather to hear Major?
What might this arrangement say about future meetings or events?
4. What are the commandments Major gives the animals? Can you think of ways each of them
could be considered a vice?
5. Why do the animals like the song "Beasts of England" so much that they memorizeit on the
spot? To what emotions and needs does it appeal?
Chapter 2
6. After Major's death what happens to the idea of rebelling against man?
7. Why don’t the pigs like the pet raven Moses' stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?
8. What causes the animals to finally rebel against Mr. Jones and his four farmhands?
9. When the humans have been chased from the farm, what do the animals do?
11. How does the behavior of the pigs foreshadow their eventual leadership positions?
Chapter 3 & 4
12. What further examples of the difference between the pigs and the other animals occur in these
two chapters?
14. How is Squealer able to convince the other animals to accept whatever Napoleon decides?
18. What is the significance of the gun's placement at the foot of the flagpole?
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Chapter 5
20. What changes have been made in the weekly meetings over the last year?
22. What changes does Napoleon make after his dogs chase Snowball off the farm?
24. Note how the animals now arrange themselves when they enter the barn to receive their orders
as compared to the description in Chapter 1.
25. What is the importance of the dogs accompanying Squealer when he comes to talk to the
animals?
Chapters 6 & 7
26. Image how things might have been different had Snowball gotten ride of Napoleon. What do
you think Snowball would have done differently?
28. Why does Napoleon decide to engage in trade with neighboring farms?
30. How is the windmill destroyed? Why does Napoleon blame Snowball?
31. Why does Napoleon insist the windmill must be rebuilt immediately?
32. Why does Napoleon order that the hens' eggs be sold?
33. How does Napoleon react when the hens' rebel against his orders?
34. Why does Napoleon revive the threat of the farm being sabotaged by Snowball?
35. Explain why the animals confessed to being traitors. Or is there any explanation?
36. Why does Napoleon order the animals to stop singing "Beasts of England?"
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Chapters 8 & 9
37. What purpose is served by the production figures Squealer reads to the animals?
38. How is Napoleon becoming more and more like a typical dictator?
39. Describe the sale of the stack of lumber. How does Napoleon outwit himself?
40. What makes the battle against Fredericks's me different from the Battle of Cowshead?
43. Describe the whisky incident. Why would Orwell make this scene somewhat humorous?
44. Why are the animals so easily fooled, even when they find Squealer with a ladder and white
paint beside the barn at night?
46. What are living conditions like for all of the animals except the pigs and dogs?
47. Why does Napoleon allow Moses to return and to tell his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain?
49. Of what kind of person does Benjamin remind you? Give some examples. What is your
opinion of such people?
Chapter 10
52. How do the animals now feel about their social order, their farm?
53. What drastic actions do the pigs use to shatter the animals' complacency?
54. All seven commandments are erased. What is the new commandment and how has it been true
from the beginning?
55. At the conference with neighboring farmers, what new changes does Napoleon point out?