Animal Farm Chapter 9-10

Word Detective

First read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning in context. Then underline the word(s) that
provided you clues to the definition.

1. Distress: He said that Comrade Napoleon had learned with the very deepest distress
of this misfortune to one of the most loyal workers on the farm, and was already
making arrangements to send Boxer to be treated in the hospital at Willingdon.

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2. Contrary: Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the
dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary
to the principles of Animalism.

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3. Faltered: Sometimes the long hours on insufficient food were hard to bear, but
Boxer never faltered.
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4. Contemptuously: They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarca
ndy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working,
with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.

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5. Indignantly: Surely,
he cried indignantly, whisking his tail and skipping from side to
side, surely they knew their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon, better than that?
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6. Morose: Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little
greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn(aloof,
stand-offish) than ever.

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7. Prosperous: The farm was more prosperous now, and better organized: it had even
been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington.
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8. Denounced: Napoleon had denounced such ideas (windmill generating

electricity/lights in every stall) as contrary to the spirit of Animalism.
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9. Diligently: The animals were weeding the turnip field. They worked diligently
hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more
frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors.

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Animal Farm Chapter 9 Questions

1. What did Clover and Benjamin advise Boxer? Why is Benjamin’s concern about Boxer
surprising and touching?
2. Give at least two examples of how the pigs were treated differently than other animals?
Why are only the young pigs being educated, and why are they discouraged from playing
with other young animals?

3. Give 2 examples of propaganda spread by the pigs in power?

4. Give at least three examples of the inequality in the way that the pigs are treated as
opposed to the other animals.

5. “Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A
too rigid equality in rations, he explained, would have been contrary to the
principles of Animalism.” Who said this _____________________________
What is the meaning and why is this quote ironic? _________________________
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6.” A) 'Long live Humanity!' B) “Death to Humanity!”

What two animals said these quotes? Quote A______________________

Quote B______________________________

Where and when _________________________________________________

What is the meaning and significance of these quotes? _______________________
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7. “Fools don’t you see what is happening?” Who said it? ____________________
When?
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What "deeper meaning" does the quotation show? ________________________
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8. 'Comrades, comrades!' they shouted. 'Don't take your own brother to his death! '
Who said it to whom? ____________________ When?
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Why don’t these animals help another horse? ________________________________
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9) Who suddenly reappears on the farm? Why do some animals believe/want to

believe his stories? Why do the pigs welcome his return?

10) What does Squealer say about Boxer’s death? Name 2 ways the pigs use
Boxer’s death for their own purposes?
11) Where do you think the pigs got the money to buy whiskey in the end?

Animal Farm Chapter 10 Questions and Quotes

1) How do the three new horses on the farm act? Do they act like any horse or horses
that we have met earlier? What is Ironic about this?
2) Even though the windmill is completed, how was its function on the farm different
than what had originally been dreamed by Snowball?

3. “Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with a tendency to
rheumy eyes. She (Clover) was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no
animal had ever actually retired.” What is ironic and sad about this quote?
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4. “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL
THAN OTHERS.”
”Where do we see this? ____________________ Who wrote is? ___________
What "deeper meaning" does the quotation show? ________________________
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5. “I believed that I am right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm do
more work and received less food than any animals in the county.”
'If you have your lower animals to contend with,' he said, 'we have our lower classes!”
Who said these things to whom? __________________________________
When and where? ____________________________________________________
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What is ironic and sad about these two quotes? __________________________
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Answer the next two questions with true, false, or it depends. Then explain your answer.

6. The farm is poor.

7. The animals are hungry and their lives are hard, so they are unhappy?

8) What 2 bazaar sights startle Clover and the other animals in the barnyard and on
the barn wall?

9) What stops the animals from complaining?

10) What kind of game are the men and the pigs playing? What does this symbolize
in the relationship of countries?

11) Explain the last paragraph of the Story.

Foreshadowing Events to come
Foreshadowing is when the author provides hints and clues that suggest what
happen later in the story.

In the graphic organizer below, explain how the event foreshadows the future in the novel.
Event What does it foreshadow?

1. 1. 'That is the true spirit, comrade!'

cried Squealer, but it was noticed he
cast a very ugly look at Boxer with his
little twinkling eyes.

2. Napoleon took them [the puppies] away

from their mothers, saying that he
would make himself responsible for
their education.
3. “I believe that the time will come when
we shall find that Snowball’s part in it
[the Battle of the Cowshed] was much
exaggerated.”

4. Tired out but proud, the animals walked

round and round their masterpiece …
the walls were twice as thick as before.
Nothing short of explosives would lay
them low….

5. “And remember … that in fighting against

Man, we must not come to resemble
him.”

6. A corner of the large pasture was to be

fenced off and turned into a grazing-
ground for superannuated animals.
Boxer's twelfth birthday was due in the
late summer of the following year.

7. The dogs’ attack on Boxer during

Napoleon’s purges.

FOLLOW-UP: Re-read old Major’s speech. What are two more events or actions
foreshadowed in that passage?