Starter quiz
- In 'Animal Farm', Orwell primarily criticises which totalitarian leader?
- Vladimir Lenin
- Joseph Stalin ✓
- Adolf Hitler
- Leon Trotsky
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- Which of the following genres does 'Animal Farm' not fit?
- Fable
- Satire
- Fairy story
- Farce ✓
- Allegory
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- In what armed conflict did George Orwell participate voluntarily?
- The Russian Revolution
- World War II
- Spanish Civil War ✓
- World War I
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- Orwell's other extremely successful novel is called what?
- 1984 ✓
- Brighton Rock
- Brave New World
- The Master and the Margerita
- Farenheit 451
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- In 'Animal Farm', which class of creatures stages its own small-scale, unsuccessful rebellion against the pigs?
- The hens ✓
- The sheeps
- The dogs
- The rats and rabbits
- The cows
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- Match the character from 'Animal Farm' to the historical figure or idea they represent.
- The dogs⇔The secret police ✓
- Boxer⇔Alexei Stakhanov ✓
- Mr. Jones⇔Tsar Nicholas II ✓
- Snowball⇔Lean Trotsky ✓
- Squealer⇔Molotov ✓
- Old Major⇔Karl Marx ✓
Exit quiz
- In every 'Animal Farm' essay, you should include context. Match the type of context to its definition.
- historical⇔What was happening when the text was written. ✓
- literary⇔What influenced the text's style or genre. ✓
- social⇔What were the shared values and ideas of the time period. ✓
- biographical⇔What are the life experiences of the author. ✓
- Orwell was influenced by his time fighting against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. What type of context is this?
- Literary
- Biographical ✓
- Social
- Historical
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- In his 1946 essay 'Why I write' what does Orwell say all his writing has been "directly or indirectly against"?
- Totalitarianism ✓
- Equality
- Dictators
- Propganda
- Education
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- Which of these does Squealer represent in 'Animal Farm'?
- Pravda the communist newspaper ✓
- The communist manifesto
- Molotov - Stalin's Minster of Foreign Affairs ✓
- Tsar Nicholas II
- The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
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- Which historical figure said "religion is the opium of the people"?
- Joseph Stalin
- Leon Trotsky
- Karl Marx ✓
- Vladimir Lenin
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- Which character in 'Animal Farm' could be an allegory for the famous Russian coal miner Alexei Stakhanov?
- Clover
- Snowball
- Boxer ✓
- Napoleon
- Squealer
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Key learning points
- Context refers to historical, social, literary and biographical information.
- Context should not be presented as isolated facts.
- Context should be relevant to the analysis and woven in the response.
- Context should develop your ideas and give an insight into the writer’s purpose and intention.
Common misconception
Context must be included in every paragraph.
Context must be included in essays, but where it is relevant and develops your analysis - not as a tick box exercise for each paragraph.
Keywords
Liberalism - A political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, democracy and free enterprise.
Ideology - A system of ideas, values or beliefs.
Socialism - Socialism is a political ideology that believes in equality and shared ownership of resources and production.
Satire - The use of humour or irony to criticise or reveal faults.
Weave - In relation to context, when you embed it into paragraphs rather than including it as a series of isolated facts.
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