Animal Farm Chapter 3

Questions and Answers

The pigs supervised the work. They did no actual work.

1. What work did the pigs do?

There was no wastage and no animal stole anything.

2. Why was this the most successful harvest ever?

Boxer did the work of three horses. It seemed the entire work of the farm rested

on his shoulders. He was always on the spot where the work

was the hardest. He started working half an hour earlier than

the rest. His motto was “I will work harder”

3. Why did all the animals admire Boxer so much?

Nobody stole, nobody grumbled, the quarrelling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared.

Nobody shirked their work.

4. How did the attitude of the animals change towards the work, the farm and each other?

Mollie: She did not get up early in the morning and had to leave work early because there was always a stone in her hoof.

Cat: when there was work to be done the cat disappeared. She re-appeared at mealtimes.

Benjamin: He seemed unchanged. He did his work in the same, slow obstinate way as before. He never volunteered for extra work.

5. Three animals did not share the same attitude as the rest: Mollie, the Cat and Benjamin. How did they act?

No work. Breakfast an hour later than usual. Hoisting of the flag. General assembly in barn where the coming

week was planned and resolutions put forward.

Ended with singing of Beasts of England.

6. What was the ritual on Sundays?

Green: green fields of England Hoof & horn: Future republic of Animals

7. Explain the symbols used on the flag Snowball designed.

Resolutions were put forward Snowball and Napoleon was never in

agreement Only pigs put forward resolutions The animals only voted

8. What was the general proceeding at meetings and what did the animals note.

Headquarters for the pigs. In the evenings they study blacksmithing,

carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they have brought from the farmhouse.

9. What was the harness room used for?

He organized the animals into several committees.

The Egg production committee The Clean Tails League The Wild Comrades Re-Education

Committee The Whiter Wool movement

10. What did Snowball keep himself busy with?

Some animals could just not remember any letters of the alphabet.

11. Why was it difficult to teach all the animals to read and write?

Four legs good, two legs bad. The sheep could not learn the alphabet and

could not memorize the seven commandments.

12. Which maxim was taught to the sheep and why?

The education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those that were already grown.

13. How did Napoleon feel about education?

He took five-year-old children away from their parents.

14. Napoleon took away Jessie’s puppies, what did Stalin do?

The pigs used it for themselves.

15. What happened to the milk?

The pigs could get it and all the apples as well because they need it to keep them clever.

16. What was the order concerning the windfalls?

The pigs are brainworkers. They need apples and milk to help them run the farm. They don’t even like apples and milk but they eat it for the sake of the animals and the farm. If they did not do it Jones would come back.

17. How did Squealer explain the situation to the animals?

If they did not, Jones would come back.

18. Why did the pigs need to stay healthy?

They were afraid that Jones would come back if the pigs did not get enough apples.

19. Why did the animals decide the whole apple harvest should go to the pigs?

He makes them afraid of Jones’ return to convince them the pigs need the apples.

20. Explain how Squealer makes use of fear to convince the animals of something.