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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which animal is driven from the farm by the dogs?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Mollie.
(c) Clover.
(d) Snowball.

2. What does Old Major insist in Chapter 1 that animals will no longer need to do?
(a) Work constantly.
(b) Live on a farm.
(c) Support mankind.
(d) Eat hay and grains.

3. In what state does Mr. Jones head to bed at the beginning of the story?
(a) Miserable.
(b) Tired.
(c) Bored.
(d) Drunken.

4. How many puppies do the farm dogs have?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

5. Which animals initially protest Napoleon's orders, but then are quickly silenced by the growling dogs?
(a) Four pigs.
(b) Mollie and Clover.
(c) The horses.
(d) Napoleon and Squealer.

6. What does Snowball want to build to create power?
(a) A wind farm.
(b) A treadmill.
(c) A power station.
(d) A windmill.

7. What happens to the puppies?
(a) Their parents educate them in the Seven Commandments.
(b) They are kept with their parents until they learn the Seven Commandments.
(c) They run away from the farm.
(d) They are taken after they are weaned to be educated.

8. Who convinces the animals on the farm that the power source for the farm was Napoleon's idea all along?
(a) Clover.
(b) Snowball.
(c) Squealer.
(d) Mollie.

9. How do the animals feel about the pigs takes specific items all for themselves?
(a) They do not think it is okay and would rather have Mr. Jones.
(b) They think it is okay but miss Mr. Jones.
(c) They do not think it is okay and do not want Mr. Jones.
(d) They think it is okay if it keeps Mr. Jones away.

10. How many dogs does Napoleon's summon in Chapter 5?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

11. Who completes the hard work of the harvest?
(a) All of the animals except the pigs.
(b) All of the animals except the cows.
(c) The pigs only.
(d) All of the animals.

12. What do the pigs take all of for themselves?
(a) Fruit and hay.
(b) Milk.
(c) Apples.
(d) Milk and apples.

13. After the dogs drive the animal from the farm, what does Napoleon no longer deem necessary?
(a) Sunday morning meetings.
(b) Work on the farm.
(c) Humans on the farm.
(d) The windmill.

14. Why does work have to stop in the fields in January?
(a) The weather.
(b) The animals disagree on how to tend the fields.
(c) Too many meetings to have time to tend to the fields.
(d) No one will work in the fields.

15. How do the three pigs spread the message of Animalism in Chapter 2?
(a) Holding rallies.
(b) Striking.
(c) Holding meetings with Mr. Jones.
(d) Through secret meetings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Old Major describe as the only true enemy of an animal?

2. How do the animals finally get food after Mr. Jones doesn't feed them for more than a day?

3. What do the animals do after the battle in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 2, on what is the pig's new school of thought based?

5. Which revolution does Animal Farm parallel?

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