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Unit 4: Animal Farm by George Orwell

Notes

Task Write an essay on the main characters in Animal Farm.

Self Assessment

Write the correct answer:

1. Which scene from Animal Farm shows that all of the animals WERE equal?
(a) Animals singing song of revolution
(b) Pigs moving into house
(c) Boxer sent to glue factory
(d) Snowball run out by dogs
2. Who was Animal Farm written by?

(a) George Orwell (b) George Pappadopolis
(c) George Powell (d) King George
3. Which character in Animal Farm did all of the animals look up to in the beginning of the
book?
(a) Old Major (b) Napoleon
(c) Mr. Jones (d) Squealer
4. How does Napoleon express his contempt for Snowball’s windmill plans?
(a) By spitting on them (b) By giving a scathing speech

(c) By urinating on them (d) By writing Snowball a letter
5. Who owns the farm where this story begins?
(a) Major (b) Mr. Jones
(c) Orwell (d) Benjamin
6. Which Russian leader does Snowball most resemble?

(a) Lenin (b) Trotsky
(c) Stalin (d) Gorbachev

4.4 Summary

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), popular by his pen name George Orwell,
was a renowned English author and journalist.
He is popularly known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian
novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which together have sold more copies than any two
books written by any other author of the 20th-century.
One biography states that Orwell’s first word was “beastly.” He was a sick child, often
fighting from flu and bronchitis. George Orwell reportedly composed his first poem
when he was four years old.

Like most boys in England, George Orwell was also sent to a boarding school. In 1911
Orwell went to St. Cyprian’s in the coastal town of Eastbourne, where he first tasted

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