Monday, September 7, 2009

Chapter 10 Questions

1. The pigs ordered the other animals on what to do and they drank alcohol.
2. The pigs could walk on two legs, they were fed more, they slept in beds, and lived in houses.

Chapter 9 Questions

1. Squealer said the animals didn't have a shortage of food, but they had a readjustment in their rations. He also said the water was of better quality.
2. When the van comes to take boxer away.
3. Squealer said that he had been present in Boxer's final hours, and that Boxer had received every attention a horse could have. He also said that the van that took Boxer away that said horse slaughter on it had been sold to the veterinary surgeon.
4. The pigs violated the commandment that stated that animals should not drink alcohol in excess.

Chapter 8 Questions

1. The neighboring farmer gave Napoleon fake bank-notes for the timber Napoleon sold him.
2. Squealer thought that the battle was a victory because they had driven the enemy off their soil, but Boxer pointed out that the windmill had been destroyed and that all the animals were hurt. Squealer perspective makes the animals uneasy because animals had died and he still considered the battle a victory.
3. The pigs had found whiskey and they got drunk, which disobeyed one of the Seven Commandments. Squealer changed this rule to animals should not drink alcohol in excess. This shows that the pigs can make and change the rules.

Chapter 7 Questions

1. He used speeches to brainwash the animals and used the dogs to scare the animals.
2. No, because Napoleon is trying to make the animals hate Snowball by blaming him for everything that goes wrong on the farm.

Chapter 6 Questions

1. The dogs growl at the animals that oppose.
2. Animal Farm traded with their neighbors, hay and eggs were sold for money, a human was used for trading, and pigs moved into the farmhouse. These events were made acceptable because of Squealers speaches.
3. The windmill had been destroyed. Napoleon used this to his advantage because he blamed it on Snowball which made the animals hate Snowball even more.

Chapter 5 Questions

1. Snowballs ideas were different than Napoleons ideas, so there was a lot of argument between them. They disagreed on everything.
2. Snowball had earned support for his ideas by his brilliant speeches.
3. Napoleon canvassed support for himself in between times and had been especially successful with the sheep.
4. Napoleon gains control over the farm because Napoleon's dogs he had been raising chased Snowball off the farm.
5. "Napoleon is always right."

Chapter 4 Questions

1. Snowball studied an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns.
2. Boxer felt guilty because he had killed a man by kicking him in the head when the animals were fighting Jones and his men.
3. Snowball was awarded a medal because he fought and directed the battle.

Chapter 3 Questions

1. The pigs did not work and they saved the apples for themselves.
2. "I will work harder."
3. Napoleon and Snowball were never in argreement. Snowball wanted a Re-education committee, while Napoleon thought that educating the young was more important.
4. Snowball said that the milk and apples preserved the pigs health.

Chapter 2 Questions

1. Snowball, Squealer, and Napoleon.
2. Heaven.
3. The rebellion occurs when Jones gets drunk and forgets to feed the animals, and the animals got into the storeshed and began eating food from the bins. Right as the animals got in the storeshed Jones and his men came at the animals with whips. The animals fought Jones and his men, and Jones and his men fled. The rebellion was not intentional.
4. We can infer that Napoleon drank the milk or hid it for himself.

Chapter 1 Questions

1. The pigs are portrayed as the most ambitious because they settled down in front of the platform.
2. Molly because the book said that she sat near the platform and flirted her white main, hoping to draw attention to her red ribbon it was plaited with.
3. "Comrads, you have heard already about the strange dream that i had last night."
4. no animal can ever kill another animal, no animal can live in a house, and no animal can wear clothes.
5. The main idea of Majors speech was that the animals should rebel and overthrow mankind