Pop Quiz Animal Farm

In the early 1920s, Lenin started to get sick—deathly sick. And that meant one communist party was about to need a leader. Josef Stalin (Napoleon) and Leon Trotsky (Snowball) both waving their hands around in the air and shouting "Pick me! Pick me!"

One major difference between the two (aside from the fact that one was a possibly psychopathic dictator) is that Trotsky wanted to spread the Revolution in other countries, while Stalin wanted to hunker down and consolidate power. But only Stalin had the power to make his vision happen: he was General Secretary of the Communist Party, so he was able to convince people to support his campaign against Trotsky. After Lenin died, Trotsky was exiled. By 1928, Russia was Stalin's.

In Animal Farm, this whole is represented by the argument over the windmill. Whose idea was it to build the windmill?

• Snowball

• Napoleon

• Old Major

• Squealer

What does Napoleon do to the plans for the windmill?

• Read them.

• Hide them.

• Ripped them up.

• Pees on it.

Who has disappeared from the farm in chapter five?

• Clover

• Mollie

• Mr. Jones

• Old Major

Where did Mollie disappear to?

• To pull a cart for a man who gives her sugar.

• Napoleon had her carted off to the glue factory.

• She runs off to Mr. Jones.

• Nobody really knows.

Who wanted to build a stronger military by building fire arms and training the military?

• Napoleon

• Squealer

• Snowball

• Boxer

Who chases Snowball off of the farm?

• The other pigs

• The nine dogs that Napoleon raised.

• All of the animals chase him away because he is a traitor.

• No one. He runs away.

How does Squealer explain Snowball's absence?

• Napoleon is hiding him for his own protection.

• The farmers kidnapped him.

• He was a traitor and a criminal.

• He had to go lead rebellions on other farms.

Who is in charge now?

• The pigs who are all equally important.

• The pigs with Napoleon on top.

• Moses

• Mr. Whymper