Starter quiz
- In 'Animal Farm', what is the primary method Napoleon uses to maintain control on the farm?
- Persuasion
- Fear and violence ✓
- Education
- Collaboration
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- In 'Animal Farm', which pig is known for being persuasive and manipulative, serving as Napoleon's spokesperson?
- Old Major
- Snowball
- Squealer ✓
- Minimus
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- In 'Animal Farm', who is driven out by Napoleon in a power struggle, despite being intelligent and having good intentions?
- Snowball ✓
- Minimus
- Old Major
- Squealer
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- Complete this commandment from 'Animal Farm': "No animal shall kill any other animal__________"
- 'without cause' ✓
- Starting with the first, put these events from 'Animal Farm' in chronological order.
- 1⇔Old Major's speech
- 2⇔Rebellion
- 3⇔Battle of the cowshed
- 4⇔Snowball's expulsion
- 5⇔Napoleon's show trials
- 6⇔Boxer's death
- 7⇔The animals walk on two legs
- In 'Animal Farm' Old Major says, "Our lives are miserable, laborious and short". This is an example of which rhetorical device?
- 'Rule of three' ✓
Exit quiz
- How do both Stalin and Napoleon from 'Animal Farm' create a cult of personality?
- Through education and information
- By employing a combination of propaganda and manipulation ✓
- Through a persuasive and collaborative leadership style
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- In 'Animal Farm' what persona does Napoleon create through propaganda?
- Nurturing, personable, and heroic ✓
- Authoritarian, ruthless, and dictatorial
- Innovative, idealistic, and collaborative
- Persuasive, artful, and obedient
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- In 'Animal Farm', which characters show the dangers of a lack of education and the connection to blind loyalty?
- Muriel and Benjamin
- Snowball and Old Major
- Boxer and Clover ✓
- Squealer and Napoleon
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- Which character in 'Animal Farm' is described as "winning over the majority with his brilliant speeches"?
- Squealer
- Napoleon
- Snowball ✓
- Old Major
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- In chapter 10 of 'Animal Farm' the pigs reduce the commandments to one. Complete the commandment: "All animals are equal but some animals__________"
- 'are more equal than others' ✓
- What did Stalin compare education to?
- weapons
- guns ✓
- flowers
- bricks
- tools
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Key learning points
- A cult of personality is the result of a carefully constructed persona, spread through propaganda and other means
- Napoleon reflects Stalin’s use of propaganda and methods of control
- Orwell explores how leaders gain power through created personas, language and education
- Orwell emphasises the dangers of an uneducated working class in the maintaining of power and hierarchy
Common misconception
That everyone in power sees education as a way to better society.
How does it feel when you don't understand something? Confusing? Scary? Disorientating? How could the pigs use this to their advantage?
Keywords
Persona - A persona is the part of your character or personality that is presented to other people.
Ideology - Ideology is a system of ideas or values that underpin a theory or idea.
Cult of personality - A cult of personality is where a public figure (such as a political leader) is presented as a great person who should be admired and loved.
Reverence - To show reverence is to demonstrate a deep respect for something or someone.
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