CHAPTER VII ANIMAL FARMER ISBN 81 88280

Chapter VII Animal Farm
Study Guide
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Study Questions

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1. How do the animals plan to prevent the second windmill from being destroyed?
Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone. Pg 56
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2. Besides the work on the windmill, what other hardships do the animals have to face in Chapter VII?
Starvation Pg 56
Napoleons Paranoid imagination working overtime and blaming everything on Snowball and executes anyone he believes is a spy for Snowball Pg 58-68
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3. How does Napoleon hope to prevent the outside world from finding out about the food shortages on Animal Farm?
Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. Pg 58
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4. What is the cause of concern among the chickens?
They protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. Pg 58 That means new born chicks are not to be born.
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5. How do the hens react to Napoleon’s news about the eggs?
For the first time since the expulsion of Jones there was something resembling a rebellion. Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes. Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. Pg. 59
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6. How does Napoleon deal with the Mutiny of the Hens and what are the results?
He ordered the hens rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. Pg 59.
Note: The first stand against Napoleons by decision Then Hens Rebelled against Nepoleon by destroying the eggs.
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7. Besides the destruction of the Windmill

the food fell short by January. Pg 57. For days the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangles. Starvation seemed to stare them in the face. Pg 57.