Animal Farm Unit Test Exam Review
Directions –There are 40 multiple choice questions and 10 matching questions. You will need to answer
the questions on the Scantron sheet. Once you have finished, please turn the test over and find something
to work on for the remaining time of the period.
1. Why would Animal Farm be considered satirical?
2. Why would Animal Farm best be considered an allegory?
3. What is Animal Farm an allegory for?4. Why would Animal Farm also be considered a fable?
5. Why are the animals upset with Mr. Jones?
6. Why does Old Major call a meeting with the other animals of the farm?
7. What is the message of Old Major’s meeting with the animals?
8. What is the significance of “Beasts of England?”
9. What happens once Old Major dies?10. What do the animals want to happen with the news of their
rebellion?
11. What is the name of the tenets the animals create for themselves?12. Who takes control of the animals
once Old Major dies?13. What is the purpose of the Commandments?
14. “Milk and apples are brain food” is an example of which type of propaganda?
a) begging the question d) faulty cause and effect reasoning
b) oversimplification e) poisoning the well
c) Band-wagon f) contradictory premises
15. How are the lives of the animals during the first year of living on their own?
16. Who is the original hero of the Battle of the Cowshed?17. Who originally came up with the idea to
build a windmill?
18. What does Boxer constantly say throughout the novel?
19. What is the symbolic significance of the Battle of the Cowshed?
20. What theme begins to show itself halfway through the novel?
21. What happens when Snowball and Napoleon disagree?
22. What animal on the farm is the skeptical one?
23. What is the first rule that Napoleon changes once Snowball is gone?
24. Who enjoys “spreading the news” to the other animals?
25. What happens to Mollie the Mare?
26. Why does Napoleon decide to later build the windmill?
27. Who is blamed for everything that goes wrong on Animal Farm?
28. What does Squealer’s character represent?29. Who does Napoleon use to make his changes to the
farm throughout the novel?
30. Napoleon begins to change the Commandments during his rule. How does the fifth Commandment
read after he changes it?
31. Why is the song “Beasts of England” banned from the farm?
32. What is the symbolic significance of the Battle of the Windmill?
33. What group of animals become brainwashed-followers of Napoleon?
34. What new Commandment replaces all of the former Commandments?
35. What would be considered a theme of the novel?
36. What do the animals realize at the final dinner?
37. What role does Mr. Whymper play in the novel?
38. What name does the farm take at the end of the novel?
39. Why is the character Moses an allegory for religion?
40. What are we led to believe will happen to the lives of the animals at the end of the novel?
Matching: Match the descriptions with a character from the novel Animal Farm.
Actual Meaning Characters
Lenin Old Major
The selfish, vain people of Russia Napoleon
Obedient, hard-working people of Russia The Dogs
KGB, secret police The Pigs
Karl Marx/Stalin Mollie
Loyalists of the Communist Party Boxer
Matching: Match the statements with its corresponding term.
Examples Terms
“Four legs good, two legs bad.” *faulty cause and effect
“Surely comrades, you don’t want Jones back?” *oversimplification/hasty generalization
Work is voluntary but rations will be cut. * internal contradiction
“Snowball stands for greed!” * fear
“If we pigs failed…Jones would come back.” * name calling
