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| 1. What is the name of the farm and who owns it? |
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| Manor Farm and Mr. Jones owns it |
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| 2. What country is it in? |
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| 3. Describe the following characters. Major, Bluebell, Jesse, Pincher,Boxer, Clover, Benjamin, Mollie.Include type of animal, type of personality, job in the revolution or government, role in the social group. |
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a. Major - white who is highly regarded by all the animals is wise and has a benevolent appearance - passes on wisdom to the animals and tells him about his dream
b. Bluebell, Jesse, Pincher - Three dogs. The nine puppies born between Jessie and Bluebell are taken by Napoleon and raised to be his guard dogs.
c. Boxer A dedicated but dimwitted cart horse
d. Clover A motherly cart horse who is approaching midlife
e. Benjamin - A cynical, pessimistic donkey who continually undercuts the animals' enthusiasm with his cryptic remark, "Donkeys live a long time."
f. Mollie - A vain horse |
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| 4. Summarize Major’s message to the animals |
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| Major delivers a rousing political speech about the evils inflicted upon them by their human keepers and their need to rebel against the tyranny of Man. After elaborating on the various ways that Man has exploited and harmed the animals, Major mentions a strange dream of his in which he saw a vision of the earth without humans. He then teaches the animals a song — "Beasts of England" -- how their life was miserable from when they were born until they are sold. He tells them that once they become useless and weak then they will be sold off or killed. (This will become the 7 commandments). |
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| 5. What could be considered his main 3 main rules |
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a) man is the enemy
b) all animals are created equal -
c) animals don’t resemble man |
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| 6. What decision is made about wild creatures? |
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| they are all equal and they are considered comrades |
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| 7. Why does he have the animals sing the song, what purpose does it serve? |
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| It is a song about freedom, it makes them feel connected and it gets excited |
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| 8. What happens to end the meeting? |
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| Mr. jones wakes up and thinks he hears a fox. He fires 6 shots into the wall of the barn and that stops the meeting. |
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| 9. When does old Major die? |
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| he dies peacefully in his sleep 3 nights later |
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| 10. Who are Snowball and Napoleon? Describe them. |
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Snowball - “a more vicious pig than Napoloean … quicker in speech and more inventive” p. 35
Napoleon -”fierce looking berkshire boar - not much of a talker but has a rep for getting his own way.” pg. 35 |
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| Squealer is a fat pig a “brilliant talker and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side, whisking his tail which was in somehow very persuasive”. p 36 |
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| 12. What name have they given Major’s teachings? |
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| 13. What are some objections to this system of thought? give 2. |
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| 1 is that Mr. Jones feeds them so they might starve without him and two is why should they care after they are dead. |
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| A tame raven who was Mr. Jones especial pet who was a spy an a tale bearer, clever talker and claims to know the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain where all animals go when they die” pg. 37 |
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| 15. What does Sugarcandy Mountain represent? |
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| 16. What job does Boxer and Clover do? |
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| they are cart horse - the most faithful disciples of animalism and have great difficulty figuring things out for themselves. |
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| 17. Describe the conditions which spark the revolution? |
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| The rebellion occurs when Jones again falls into a drunken sleep and neglects to feed the animals (again), who break into the store-shed in search of a meal. So when Jones and his men arrive, they begin whipping the animals but soon find themselves being attacked and chased off the farm. Jones and his men were not ready for the animals.. they left. |
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| 18. When the animals turn on them, what do each of the following do? Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones, and Moses |
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Mr. Jones : First he goes to whip the animals and then was completely surprised by their attack and runs away.
Mrs. Jones: She saw from the window what going on, she pack her and leaves the farm in a different direction
Moses: Flaps after Ms. Jones He goes with Mrs. Jones... |
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| 19. Describe the actions of the animals after the humans leave. |
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| they gallop around the boundries to make sure there are no other humans somewhere. They go into the harness room and fling down all the thing that had kept them as subservant into the well and fire. And through the ribbons as well. The triumphant animals then destroy all traces of Jones, eat heartily, and revel in their newfound freedom. After a tour of Jones' house, they decide to leave it untouched as a museum. Snowball changes the sign reading "Manor Farm" to "Animal Farm" and paints the Seven Commandments of Animalism on the wall of the barn. The cows then give five buckets of milk, which Napoleon steals. |
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| 20. Describe their actions when they wake up at dawn |
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| have breakfast, do the hay harvest and change farm name to ‘Animal Farm’ and write down the commandments, and milked the cows |
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| 21 Describe what they do with the farmhouse: |
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| 21 Describe what they do with the farmhouse: They decide to leave it untouched like a museum |
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| 22. To what do they change the name of the farm? |
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| 23. What are the seven commandments? |
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| ‘an unalterable law by which all the animals on animal farm on must live forever after’ |
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1) whatever goes upon 2 legs is an enemy
2) whatever is go on four legs or has wings is a friend
3) no animal shall wear clothes
4. no animal shall sleep in a bed
5) no animal shall drink alcohol
6) no animal shall kill any other animal
7) all animals are equal |
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| 25. What is the animal’s job for the day? |
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