Chapter One Study Questions

CHAPTER ONE ANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL
1. Where do the animals live?

2. Who owns the farm?
3. Who is Old Major?
4. What is Old Major’s dream?
5. How is life bad for the animals on the farm?
6. What does Old Major suggest that the animals do?
7. What is “Beasts of England”?
8. What sets the pigs apart from the other animals?
9. What decision is reached about wild animals such as rats?
10.What does Old Major caution the animals against doing if they successfully overthrow man?
1.Where do the animals live?

2.Who owns the farm?
3.Who is Old Major?
4.What is Old Major’s dream?
5.How is life bad for the animals on the farm?
6.What does Old Major suggest that the animals do?
7.What is “Beasts of England”?
8.What sets the pigs apart from the other animals?
10.What does Old Major caution the animals against doing if they successfully overthrow
man?
1.Where do the animals live?

2.Who owns the farm?
3.Who is Old Major?
4.What is Old Major’s dream?
5.How is life bad for the animals on the farm?
6.What does Old Major suggest that the animals do?
7.What is “Beasts of England”?
8.What sets the pigs apart from the other animals?
10.What does Old Major caution the animals against doing if they successfully overthrow
man?
Quiz Answers CHAPTER 1
1. The animals live on Manor Farm in England.

2. The owner of Manor Farm is Mr. Jones.
3. Old Major is Mr. Jones’ old white prize boar. He is highly respected by the other animals :
« Old Major was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose and
hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say. » chapter 1, §2, p.1
4. Old Major has a dream about a world where man has disappeared:« Man is the only real
enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is
abolished for ever.» chapter 1, § 5, p.2
5. Mr. Jones works the animals hard and steals the products of their labor until they eventually
die at his hand : « ... nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by
human beings. » chapter 1, §5, p.2
6. Old Major suggests that one day animals must rebel against their human masters: That is the
message to you, comrades : Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion will come, ….
but I know, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be
done ; « ... pass on this message of mine to those who come after you, so that future
generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious.» chapter 1,§ 1, p.3
7. “Beasts of England” is a song that Old Major learned in childhood.
This song encourages animals to overthrow humans' domination which is unfair, harsh and
cruel: «Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown, and the fruitful fields
of England shall be trod by beasts alone.» chapter 1, p.4, § 3
8. The pigs are considered as the most intelligent of the farm animals and sit in the front of the
audience, as a sign of superiority: the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in
front of the platform.» ( chapter 1, §3, p.1)
9. The animals vote that wild animals should be considered “comrades:” « it was agreed by an
overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.» ( chapter 1, §6, p.3)
10.Old Major warns the animals not to adopt the habits of man and lists seven specific things
they must not do: « in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when
you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.... All animals are equal.» chapter 1, §7,
p.3
ANIMAL FARM CHAPTER 2
1. What happens to Old Major?

2. Who leads the preparations for the rebellion?
3. Who is Squealer?
4. What is Animalism?
5. Why don’t the pigs like Moses?
6. Why does Mollie seem concerned about Animalism?
7. What prompts the rebellion?
8. What have the pigs secretly learned to do?
9. What are the Seven Commandments?
10.What happens to the milk from the cows?
1.What happens to Old Major?

2.Who leads the preparations for the rebellion?
3.Who is Squealer?
4.What is Animalism?
5.Why don’t the pigs like Moses?
6.Why does Mollie seem concerned about Animalism?
7.What prompts the rebellion?
8.What have the pigs secretly learned to do?
9.What are the Seven Commandments?
1.What happens to Old Major?

2.Who leads the preparations for the rebellion?
3.Who is Squealer?
4.What is Animalism?
5.Why don’t the pigs like Moses?
6.Why does Mollie seem concerned about Animalism?
7.What prompts the rebellion?
8.What have the pigs secretly learned to do?
9.What are the Seven Commandments?
CHAPTER 2 ANIMAL FARM
Quiz Answers
1. Old Major dies three days after his speech : « Three nights later olf Major died peacefully in
his sleep. His body was buried at the foot of the orchard.» chapter 2, §1,p.1
2. The pigs—especially Napoleon and Snowball—lead the farm in preparing for the rebellion :
The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together
again.» (chapter 2, § 7, p.3)
3. Squealer is a very persuasive pig: « he was a brilliant talker….the others said of Squealer
that he could turn black into white. » chapter 2, §2, p.1
4. Animalism is a theory that the pigs derive from Old Major’s speech which consists in
favoring the animals’ interests to the detriment of the humans’.
5. The pigs don’t like Moses because his talk of Sugarcandy Mountain distracts the animals
from the need for rebellion. Besides, he’s regarded as a «spy and a tale-bearer» who supports
Mr Jones. (chapter 2, §8, p.1)
6. Mollie is concerned that she won’t get to wear hair ribbons or enjoy lump sugar after the
rebellion. Moreover, after the animals’ rebellion, she is discovered to be missing. She was
actually in Mrs Jones’ bedroom, « admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner »
with one of Mrs Jones’ blue ribbons. (Chapter 2, §6, page 3)
7. Farmer Jones starts drinking more and neglects to feed the animals for over twenty-four
hours : « the man had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting,
without bothering to feed the animals. » (chapter 2,§4,p.2)
8. The pigs reveal that they have taught themselves to read and write : « they had taught
themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which ahd belonged to Mr Jones’s
children... » ( chapter 2, §9, p.3)
9. The Seven Commandments are:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.
10.It is implied that Napoleon stole the milk, taking advantage of the harvest: « So the animals
trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it
was notices that the milk had disappeared. » (chapter 2, §9, p.4)
Quiz Questions
1. What is different about this year’s harvest?
2. What does Boxer adopt as his motto?
3. What do the animals do on Sundays?
4. Do Snowball and Napoleon get along?
5. Why don’t any animals except pigs submit resolutions for debate?
6. What does Snowball want to focus on at the farm?
7. What does Napoleon want to focus on?
8. What happens to Jessie’s and Bluebell’s puppies?
9. What has been happening to the milk?
10.What does Squealer explain about the milk and apples?
Quiz Answers
1. This year the animals have the largest harvest yet, and they also finish it faster than normal.
2. Boxer adopts “I will work harder!” as his personal motto.
3. On Sundays, the animals don’t work and instead hold farm-wide meetings to debate and
vote on new resolutions: « here the work of the coming week was planned out and
resolutions were put forward and debated. » (chapter 3, page 4.)
4. Snowball and Napoleon disagree on almost everything : « these 2 were never in agreement:
whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it. »
chapter 3, page 5)
5. Only the pigs are smart enough to come up with new resolutions.
6. Snowball wants to focus on educating the animals and putting them into committees.
(chapter 3, page 5 : «Snowball also busied himself with organising the other animals into
what he called Animal Committees. »
7. Napoleon thinks the pigs should focus on the education of the young: «the reading and
writing classes, however, were a great success.» chapter 3, page 6 .
8. Napoleon takes Jessie’s and Bluebell’s puppies up to a secret loft, and everyone soon forgets
about them.
9. It is revealed that the milk is being mixed in with the pigs’ mash.
10.Squealer explains that the pigs need the vitamins in the milk and apples to continue being
the brainworkers of the farm : « we pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and
organisation of this farm depend on us. » chapter 3, page 9

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CHAPTER ONE ANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL

1. Where do the animals live?

CHAPTER ONE ANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL

1.Where do the animals live?

CHAPTER ONE ANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL

1.Where do the animals live?

1. The animals live on Manor Farm in England.

1. What happens to Old Major?

ANIMAL FARM CHAPTER 2

1.What happens to Old Major?

ANIMAL FARM CHAPTER 2

1.What happens to Old Major?

9. The Seven Commandments are:

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

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