Animal Farm Test Review

Mr. Jones

Tsar Nicholas II

Manor Farm/Animal Farm

Russia/Soviet Union

Old Major

The idealist who envisions a perfect life for the animals, similar to Marx and Lenin.

Napoleon

Stalin

Snowball

Trotsky

Boxer and Clover

The proletariat

Animals other than pigs and dogs

The proletariat

Benjamin

The intellectuals who failed to oppose Stalin

Squealer

The Pravda, official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Mollie

The bourgeoisie

Hoof and Horn on the Flag

Hammer and sickle on the Soviet Union flag

Mr. Frederick (Pinchfield Farm)

Hitler

Mr. Pilkington (Foxwood Farm)

Churchill and Roosevelt

Selling of the wood

Nazi-Soviet pact

Battle of the Cowshed

Civil War after the 1917 revolution

Confessions and executions

Blood purges of 1936-38

Battle of the Windmill

Battle of Stalingrad

Napoleon’s dogs

Secret police

Meeting of men and pigs (final scene)

Tehran Conference

Playing the ace of spades

Beginning of the Cold War

Propaganda

The manipulation and control of language

Bandwagon Appeal

Taps into people’s desire to belong

Faulty cause-and-effect reasoning

The mistake of assuming that because one event occurred after another event in time, the first event caused the second one to occur

Scapegoat

Someone or something to blame for all the bad conditions the leader wants to eliminate

Euphemism

The use of words to soften the true meaning

Rhetorical questions

Statements that are voiced as questions but are not expected to be answered

Logical fallacies

When the premises may be accurate, but the conclusion is not

Loaded language

Words charged with an underlying meaning or implication that are used to produce emotion in the audience

Irony

A figure of speech in which the literal meaning is the opposite of the intended meaning

Glittering generality

Emphasize highly valued beliefs, such as patriotism, peace, or freedom

Fable

A brief tale told to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson

Allegory

A work with two levels of meaning – a literal one and a symbolic one

Satire

A literary technique in which ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society

Anthropomorphism

The attribution of human characteristics, emotions, and behaviors to animals or other non-human things

Communism

Ideal by Marx, leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned, and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Totalitarianism

A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial

Capitalism

An economic system characterized by ownership of capital goods

Proletariat

The working/laboring class

Bourgeoisie

The middle, property-owning class

Idealist/idealism

One who sees things as they could be rather than as they are

Broker

A person paid a fee for acting as an agent in making sales

Herb (mob) mentality

The tendency of people in a group to think and behave in ways that conform with others in the group rather than as individuals