Animal Farm

Chapter X (10)

1. What is meant by the words “the short animal lives 1. What is meant by the words “the short animal lives fled by”?fled by”?

Years passed. Many animals died.

2. What is an “inebriates home”?2. What is an “inebriates home”?

Home where alcoholics recover.

3. Why has no animal retired?

The pigs would not allow them to retire, a pasture was never set aside for animals reaching the retirement age.

4. Why were the pigs so fat?

They ate all the food.

5. In our own words state where Napoleon says you can find the truest happiness.

Hard work and frugal living.Frugal: live on little money and you waste nothing.

6. If dreaming of stalls with electric light and hot and cold water, and the three-day week, were denounced as ideas contrary to the spirit of Animalism, what is Animalism then all about?

Animalism is about dictatorship. The pigs receive everything and the rest of the animals must work so that the pigs can get everything.

7. Is there any sense in the work the pigs do? Give a reason for your answer.

No. Everything they write is burnt in a furnace.

8. Why should these animals have the same rights as the pigs and the dogs?

They are all animals.

9. Why did the animals accept their lives?

They were still immensely proud of being the only farm in England run by animals.

They accepted hardship and labour as being part of life.

They could not compare their current life with any other kind of life.

10. Of what are the animals still dreaming?

The Republic of Animals which Major had foretold, when the green fields of England should be untrodden by human feet.

11. Although the animals suffered there was one aspect that set them apart from all other animals. What was that?

Animal Farm belonged to them.

12. When the pigs wanted to make a major change in their lives, why did they get the sheep on their side before they informed the other animals?

The sheep were the stupidest of all animals and they outnumbered the rest of the animals.

If you could teach the sheep a new principle, they could overwhelm the other animals by bleating it out.

13. Why did the world turn upside down for the animals when the pigs walked on their hind legs and Napoleon had a whip in his trotter?

The commandments state clearly that everything on two legs is an enemy.

The pigs are walking on two legs, an aspect that set animals apart from human beings.

14. Why did the animals not protest?

At the moment they wanted to protest the sheep started to bleat:

Four legs good, two legs better!

15. What is the implied meaning of the new and only commandment that was written on the wall?

Some animals deserve to get more than other animals.

16. What does the following sentence imply “and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors.”

There seemed to be no difference between pigs and humans.

17. Why did the humans regard Animal Farm as a threat when it was first established?

They were afraid the farm would encourage their own animals to rebel.

18. What is the meaning of the word “incumbent”?

necessary as a result of a duty, responsibility, or .

“But before doing so, there were a few words that he felt it incumbent upon him to say”

19. Write down the synonyms for the underlined words and answer the questions concerning the words spoken by Pilkington.

It was a source of great satisfaction to him, he said – and, he was sure, to all others present – to feel that…

19.1 Who are the “others” Pilkington refers to?

The other human farmers

19.2 (mistrust) distrust19.3 (misunderstanding) mistake/ mix-up

19.4 Is the statement in brackets true of false? Give a reason for your answer.

False, Pilkington and Frederick destroyed the windmill and attacked Animal Farm twice.

(There had been a time - not that he or any of the present company – had shared such sentiments)

19.5 What sentiments is Pilkington refering to?

Sentiments that Animal Farm will not succeed and that Animal Farm is a threat.

19.6 (proprietors) owners19.7 (regarded) seen as19.8 (hostility) enmity19.9 (misgiving) doubt, suspicion19.10 (current) present / existing19.11 operated - run19.12 (liable) – legally responsible19.13(unsettling effect) – upsetting/ disturbing result/

outcome

19.14. Who is living in this neighbourhood that Pilkington refers to?

Human farmers

19.15 (due) expected19.16(inquire) ask/ question

19.17 What type of farm is “such a farm”?

A farm run by Pigs

19.18 What is a spirit of licence and indicipline or what would animals on farms be like if there is a “spirit of licence and indicipline” on the farm?

Animals would do what they want to and won’t listen to orders.

20. Who are the “lower” animals on Animal Farm and why are they called the “lower” animals?

All the animals except for Pigs and dogs.

They are called the lower animals because they have to work.

21. What similarity said Pilkington is there between human farmers and pig farmers?

They had the same struggles and difficulties.

They had the same problem with labour.

22. Why can you now truly say that the animals on Animal Farm have been conned by Napoleon?

The pigs used a dream to steal the farm from the animals.

23. Animal Farm is a “co-operative enterpise.” What does this mean?

All the pigs own the farm as a co-op.

24. What are the “titledeeds” of a farm and who owned Animal Farm?

A documents which states who is the owner.

The Pigs.

25. Why will the animals be stopped from addressing each other as “comrades”?

They are not comrades anymore. They don’t share the same suffering, fate and ideals anymore.

26. Why will the skull be removed?

The animals must not be reminded of Major’s dream because it will never be realised.

27. Why will the flag only be green?

The hoof and the horn represented the workers. Nothing belonged to the workers.

28. What does the changing of the name mean?

Nothing changed in the way the farm was managed.

29. Why were the card players angry when Napoleon and Pilkington played aces of spades similtaneously?

There is only one ace of spades in a pack of cards. Napoleon and Pilkington were cheating in the game.

30. What meaning do you read into the ending of the book?

The Pigs turned into humans.The pigs became like the very thing they

rebelled against at first.A revolution will not change a situation,

you will return to the same situation you have revolted against in the first place.