7. Why did animals have to feed themselves?
I. Fill in the blanks
After Mr. Jones, the owner of ___ Farm ,___, all of his animals meet in the ___________at the request of , an old pig.
Old Major delivers a rousing_______ about the evils inflicted upon them by their human keepers and their need to ____________ the tyranny of Man.
After listing the various ways that Man has exploited and harmed the animals, Old Major mentions one of his _______in which he saw a vision of the earth without humans.
He then teaches the animals a song “_______” which they sing repeatedly until they awaken__________, who fires his gun, thinking there is a fox in the yard.
Frightened by the shot, the animals disperse. The Old Major ____ and ______ .
Answer the questions.
1. Who tells the story?
2. Why couldn’t Boxer keep a line?
3. Where did Mrs. Jones go to?
4. Who and why came to see Mr. Jones?
5. What happened at night?
6. What was the main point of the Old Major’s speech?
7. Why did animals have to feed themselves?
8. Who made a plan of animal revolution?
9. Who and how became its leaders?
10. What frightened Pilkington and other farmers?
11. How did they manage to know what was happening in Animal Farm?
12. Which of the animals didn’t work in the field? Why?
13. What happened to the pappies?
14. Who stole milk and apples? How did thieves explain their reason?
15. Was men’s invasion successful?
16. Who was proclaimed the Hero of the first class?
17. What happened to him later?
18. What idea came to Pilkington’s mind?
19. Why did that idea become realizable only then?
20. What did Napoleon and other pigs get dependent on?
21. What did become of Napoleon at the end of the movie?
22. What did Jessy manage to live up to?
Who is more equal?
The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together again. “Comrades”, said snowball, “it is half past six and we have a long day before us. Today we have a hay harvest. But there is another matter that must be done first”. The pigs now revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and to write from an old spelling book which had belonged to Mt Jones’s children. They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principals of Animalism to seven commandments.
These seven commandments would now be written on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farms must live forever after. With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work. The commandments were written on the wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. They run thus:
The seven commandments
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
Snowball read it aloud for the benefit of the others. All the animals nodded in complete agreement, and the cleverer ones at once began to learn the commandment by heart.
It was soon found that many animals such as the sheep, hens and ducks were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart. After much thought Snowball declared that the Seven Commandments could be reduced to a single saying, named: “Four legs good, two legs bad”. This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.
The commandments gradually changed.
1. No animals shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
2. No animals shall kill other animals without cause.
3. No animals shall drink alcohol to excess.
4. Four legs good, two legs better.
5. All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.
“Now comrades” cried the Snowball, throwing down the paintbrush, “to the hayfield! Let us make it in a point of honour to get in a harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do.
But three cows had not been milked for twenty-four hours, and their udders were almost bursting. After a little thought the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters were well adapted to this task. Soon there were five buckets of milk at which many animals looked with interest. “What is going to happen to all this milk?” said someone. “Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash,” said one of the hens.
“Never mind the milk, comrades!” cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. “The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. Forward comrades! The hay is waiting!”
So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.