Animal Farm Quizzes
Test your knowledge of George Orwell's Animal Farm by taking one of our user-contributed quizzes! Each quiz is multiple choice and includes questions on plot points, themes, and character traits. Test your knowledge online or print for classroom use.
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Animal Farm Chapter 1
In the opening chapter of George Orwell's classic Utopian novel, it is easy to understand why the animals of Manor Farm are easily riled up. The pigs, the smartest of the lot, are adept at pointing... -
Animal Farm Chapter 2
"Beyond the fences of this life/ There lies a wondrous hill/ And all good creatures when they die/ Go there to graze their fill." When one of the animals passes away, the survivors comfort... -
Animal Farm Chapter 3
Napoleon Bonaparte argued that a "leader is a dealer in hope." He does not say, however, that hope will pay off for those who wait. How apropos it is for Orwell to name one of the pig leaders... -
Animal Farm Chapter 4
Frederick Douglass vehemently argued that "power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." The Rebellion is raging. Two of the animals exhibit remarkable bravery; others... -
Animal Farm Chapter 5
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power," Abraham Lincoln observed. Surely this adage applies to Snowball. Having been successful in one... -
Animal Farm Chapter 6
"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them," Napoleon Bonaparte claimed. Snowball has risen to be the general of Manor Farm and has no problem taking both the credit for the... -
Animal Farm Chapter 7
"What's the first lesson an animal learns? To endure its slavery. How does the life of an animal end? In cruel butchery." These are part of the lyrics to the song all the animals learn to sing to... -
Animal Farm Chapter 8
Rules? Or suggestions? By Chapter 8 of George Orwell's Animal Farm it seems that the "Commandments," so vehemently and rigidly composed, are flexible. Moreover, if everyone is equal and living in... -
Animal Farm Chapter 9
"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent," the English novelist D.H. Lawrence said. In other words, the more noisy the rhetoric, the more likely it is that times are about to become very hard... -
Animal Farm Chapter 10
In the final chapter of Orwell's classic dystopian novel, the ideal world envisioned in Chapter 1 has completely disintegrated. Most of the old animals that fought in the Rebellion have died and... -
Animal Farm Overview
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." What happened to the ideal of absolute equality? Be sure you recall the details about how a revolution turns sour by taking the eNotes... -
Benjamin in Animal Farm
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun," the Roman philosopher Cicero said. For Benjamin, the horse, that true... -
Boxer in Animal Farm
Denial. It ain't just a river in Egypt. Poor Boxer. You may be able to relate to Boxer if you've ever had a friend who refuses to see the signs that a relationship has gone sour. Boxer has an... -
Clover in Animal Farm
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it," Henry David Thoreau said. Clover is a heartbreaking character. He is simpleminded and he follows the rules instigated by the pigs. But unlike... -
Napoleon in Animal Farm
Pay careful attention to the symbolism of all the names of the characters in Orwell's classic dystopian novel but especially so to the pig Napoleon. Like his namesake, the character Napoleon is a... -
Snowball in Animal Farm
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions," President James Madison argued. And as the... -
Squealer in Animal Farm
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies," Winston Churchill said. In the aftermath of the Rebellion, the chief bodyguard of those lies is the...