Animal Farm, Chapter VI quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. How many hours per week do the animals work in Chapter VI?

   • Fifty hours per week, with Sundays reserved for rest
   • Correct answer: Sixty hours per week, with voluntary Sunday afternoon labor
   • Seventy hours per week, with no days off at all
   • Forty hours per week, the same as in Mr. Jones's day before the Rebellion

   The animals work a sixty-hour week throughout the spring and summer. Sunday afternoon work is described as "strictly voluntary" but refusal results in rations being cut by half.

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   Question 2. What is Mr. Whymper's profession?

   • A merchant who supplies building materials
   • A farmer who owns land adjacent to Animal Farm
   • Correct answer: A solicitor (lawyer) living in Willingdon
   • A veterinarian who treats the farm animals

   Mr. Whymper is described as a sly-looking solicitor from Willingdon whom Napoleon engages to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside human world.

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   Question 3. What role does Mr. Whymper serve for Animal Farm?

   • He provides legal protection against Mr. Jones's attempts to reclaim the farm
   • He teaches the pigs to read and write more advanced documents
   • He serves as a spy reporting farm conditions to other humans
   • Correct answer: He acts as intermediary for trade between Animal Farm and neighboring farms

   Napoleon hires Mr. Whymper to handle all commercial transactions between Animal Farm and the human-run farms, visiting every Monday to receive instructions.

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   Question 4. How does Squealer respond when animals recall a resolution against trading with humans?

   • Correct answer: He claims no such resolution was ever passed and attributes the rumor to Snowball
   • He argues that trading with humans was always part of Old Major's vision
   • He admits the resolution existed but argues circumstances have changed
   • He says the resolution was officially repealed by a majority vote at a later Meeting

   Squealer categorically denies that any anti-trade resolution was ever passed or even suggested, calling it "pure imagination" probably traceable to lies spread by Snowball.

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   Question 5. Which commandment is altered in Chapter VI?

   • The Sixth Commandment, about killing other animals
   • The Third Commandment, about wearing clothes
   • Correct answer: The Fourth Commandment, about sleeping in a bed
   • The Fifth Commandment, about drinking alcohol

   Back in Chapter II the Fourth Commandment forbade sleeping in a bed. Now, just after the pigs have moved into the farmhouse beds, Muriel reads it aloud as "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets." The chapter leaves the reader to connect the two.

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   Question 6. What words have been added to the Fourth Commandment?

   • Correct answer: "with sheets"
   • "of straw"
   • "between blankets"
   • "in the farmhouse"

   The Fourth Commandment on the wall now reads "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets." Squealer says the pigs have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds and sleep between blankets.

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   Question 7. Which animal asks Muriel to read the altered commandment on the barn wall?

   • Mollie, who is curious about the luxurious comforts of the farmhouse beds
   • Boxer, who is troubled by the pigs' new privileges in the farmhouse
   • Benjamin, who suspects deception but refuses to read the wall himself
   • Correct answer: Clover, who senses something is wrong but cannot read well enough herself

   Clover thinks she remembers a definite ruling against beds and, unable to read more than individual letters, asks Muriel the goat to read the Fourth Commandment to her.

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   Question 8. How does Squealer justify the pigs sleeping in beds?

   • He says the pigs earned beds by winning the Battle of the Cowshed
   • Correct answer: He argues a bed is merely a place to sleep, and even a pile of straw is a bed
   • He explains that Old Major specifically approved beds for the pigs
   • He claims the beds were a gift from Mr. Whymper as part of a trade deal

   Squealer argues that "A bed merely means a place to sleep in" and that "A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded." By his account, the rule was only ever against sheets, "which are a human invention."

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   Question 9. What does the chapter describe on the night before the animals find the windmill in ruins?

   • Snowball is observed creeping onto the farm under cover of darkness
   • Mr. Jones and his companions attack the farm with sticks and a gun
   • Correct answer: A gale so violent that the farm buildings rock on their foundations
   • The hens are awakened by genuine gunfire somewhere in the distance

   In November a gale blew so hard that the farm buildings rocked and tiles came off the barn roof; in the morning the flagstaff was down, an elm was uprooted, and the windmill was in ruins. The hens only dreamed of hearing a gun, and no one saw Snowball.

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    Question 10. Whom does Napoleon blame for the windmill's destruction?

    • Mr. Jones, the former owner of Manor Farm
    • Correct answer: Snowball, the exiled pig and rival leader
    • Boxer, for hauling stones that were too large for the walls
    • Mr. Frederick, the owner of Pinchfield Farm

    Napoleon declares that Snowball crept onto the farm by night and destroyed the windmill, and he pronounces some pig's footprints in the grass to be Snowball's. The animals, "shocked beyond measure," take up his charge and begin thinking out ways of catching Snowball if he should ever come back.

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    Question 11. What sentence does Napoleon pronounce on Snowball?

    • Life imprisonment if he is ever caught on Animal Farm again
    • Forfeiture of his Animal Hero medal and permanent banishment
    • Exile from all neighboring farms and territories
    • Correct answer: A death sentence, with a bushel of apples as a reward for his capture

    Napoleon pronounces "the death sentence upon Snowball." The reward is Animal Hero, Second Class, and half a bushel of apples for bringing him to justice, or a full bushel for capturing him alive.

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    Question 12. How does Squealer end his speech defending the pigs' sleeping in the farmhouse beds?

    • Correct answer: He asks, "Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?"
    • He cries, "Long live the windmill! Long live Animal Farm!"
    • He roars "SNOWBALL!" and denounces the traitor responsible
    • He asks, "Have you any record of such a resolution?"

    Squealer ends his defense of the beds with "Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?" The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds.

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    Question 13. How do the animals finally manage to break up the stone for the windmill?

    • They shatter the stone with picks and crowbars operated by the stronger animals
    • They pulverize the rock beneath the cart-horses' iron-shod hoofs
    • Correct answer: They drag boulders up the slope and topple them over the quarry's edge
    • They weaken the limestone using sand and cement discovered in an outhouse

    No animal could use picks or crowbars, because none could stand on its hind legs. After weeks of vain effort, the animals used the force of gravity: they dragged huge boulders up the slope with ropes and toppled them over the edge of the quarry to shatter below.

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    Question 14. What arrangement does Boxer make with the cockerel in Chapter VI?

    • Correct answer: To be called three-quarters of an hour earlier instead of half an hour
    • To summon him from the quarry whenever the pigs require assistance
    • To be awakened an hour later so he can recover from nightly labor
    • To announce Mr. Whymper's arrival every Monday with a warning

    Boxer arranged for the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour, and in his spare moments he hauled broken stone to the windmill alone.

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