Chapter Five Study Guide

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Chapter Five Study Guide

• Napoleon is always right!

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1. What happens to Mollie? Describe what she
did. Who discovers the evidence?

• Clover sees Mollie talking to a man and discovers
  sugar and ribbons in her stall.
• Later, Mollie runs away and becomes the cart
  horse for a man in Willingdon.

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2. Though the pigs decide farm policy, what limit
is put on their decisions?

• Snowball and Napoleon disagree over everything.
  Snowball has many plans for the farm. Napoleon
  challenges these ideas, but does not offer any
  schemes of his own.

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3. What is Snowballs strength when he is
debating Napoleon?

• Snowball makes brilliant speeches at the Meetings.

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4. In what way is Napoleon more effective?

• Napoleon gathers support in between the Meetings
  by talking to the other animals, he is especially
  successful with the sheep.

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5. Which of Snowballs schemes leads to the
bitterest controversy?

• Snowball wants to build a windmill to generate
  electricity for the farm.

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6. Where did Snowball get the ideas for his plans?

• Snowballs ideas come from three books that
  belonged to Mr. Jones One Thousand Useful Things
  to Do About the House, Every Man His Own
  Bricklayer, and Electricity for Beginners.

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7. How does Napoleon react to the carefully drawn
plans?

• Napoleon inspects the plans, and then urinates
  all over them.

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8. Which side does Benjamin support?

• He does not support either side. He continues to
  believe life will go on as it had always done
  that is, badly.

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9. What was another major point of contention
between Snowball and Napoleon? Describe their
arguments.

• The defense of the farm was another point of
  contention. Napoleon wants the farm to get guns
  and learn to use them.
• Snowball wants to spread the rebellion to other
  farms, which would remove the threat of Man from
  England.

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10. Who are Napoleons secret police?

• Napoleons secret police is made of the puppies
  he took away from the dogs in chapter three. The
  dogs are not fully grown, but are large and
  fierce and seem to treat Napoleon as their master.

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11. Following the banishment of Snowball, what is
Napoleons first official act?

• Napoleon puts an end to the Sunday-morning
  meetings. Instead, all decisions will be made by
  a special committee of pigs. The animals will
  still gather on Sunday mornings, but only to
  salute the flag and sing Beasts of England.

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12. How does Squealer explain the abolition of
the animal vote?

• Squealer tells the other animals that Napoleon is
  making a sacrifice by taking on the deep and
  heavy responsibility of leadership.
• The animals, he tells them, cannot be trusted to
  make decisions for themselves.

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13. How does Squealer explain Napoleons changed
attitude toward the windmill?

• Squealer tells the animals that the windmill had
  been Napoleons plan since the beginning.
  Snowball is a dangerous influence who had to be
  gotten rid of. Now that Snowball is gone, the
  plan for the windmill can go on with out his
  interference.

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14. Who is Minimus?

• Minimus is a young pig with a gift for writing
  poems and songs. He soon appears next to
  Napoleon and Squealer on the platform used by the
  pigs to give the other animals their orders for
  the week.

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15. What new maxim does Boxer adopt?

• Boxers new maxim is Napoleon is always right
  in addition to I will work harder.

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16. According to Squealer, who really planned
the windmill?

• Napoleon planned the windmill and Snowball had
  stolen the plans from among Napoleons papers.

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What do the sheep love to repeat?

• Four legs good, two legs bad!
• Four legs good, two legs bad!
• Four legs good, two legs bad!
• Four legs good, two legs bad!
• Four legs good, two legs bad!
• Four legs good, two legs bad!
• Four legs good, two legs bad!
• Four legs good, two legs bad!