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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal holds education sessions for the other animals?

2. What do the pigs do to the cows in Chapter 2?

3. What is the power Snowball wants to create to be used for?

4. Where does Mr. Jones talk to his friends about losing his farm?

5. Where does Animal Farm begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which animal is favored by Mr. Jones over all of the other animals?

2. Why didn't the pigs do any work in Chapter 3?

3. Who is left totally in charge of the farm at the end of Chapter 5?

4. Why does Old Major feel it is important to give his speech that night in Chapter 1?

5. How do the animals react to Animalism after they have the greatest harvest ever?

6. Who emerges as the true leader of the farm by Chapter 4?

7. What does Mollie deny to Clover?

8. What do the local farmers do regarding the Animal Farm in Chapter 4?

9. What happens to animals who are unable to learn the Seven Commandments?

10. What are the Seven Commandments on which Animalism is based?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel, Napoleon hid the fact that his animals were starving from others. Why would a leader of a country want to hide something like that? Use examples from the story to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Consider the character Boxer. Write an essay about this character and the decisions and actions he took throughout the story as well as his final fate. Make a judgment about these issues and use information from the text to support your judgment.

Essay Topic 3

The concept of the perfect world is an underlying theme in this story. Discuss what the perfect world would be as described by the animals and what happened to that perfect world to destroy it.

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