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Animal Farm, Part 4: Conflict Answers

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Which conflicts are types of external conflict in a literary work? Select three options.a character feuding with a close frienda character dealing with feelings of inadequacya character living in a harsh environmenta character being judged by the communitya character deciding on the best course of action

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a character feuding with a close friend
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a character dealing with feelings of inadequacy
C
a character living in a harsh environment
D
a character being judged by the community
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a character deciding on the best course of action
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What are the effects of Snowball and Napoleon’s disagreement? Select two options.

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Napoleon agrees with Snowball’s reasoning.
B
The dogs chase Snowball off the farm.
C
The animals vote for Snowball’s plans.
D
Napoleon takes over as leader of the farm.
E
Snowball relinquishes his power to Napoleon.
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Read the excerpt from Animal Farm and the passage on the history of the Soviet Union.Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech. He announced that from now on the Sunday-morning Meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In future all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. These would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others. The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing "Beasts of England," and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates.In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement. Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.This tradition of tight centralization, with decision-making concentrated at the highest party levels, reached new dimensions under Joseph Stalin. . . . There was little input from below. The party elite determined the goals of the state and the means of achieving them in almost complete isolation from the people. They believed that the interests of the individual were to be sacrificed to those of the state, which was advancing a sacred social task. Stalin's "revolution from above” sought to build socialism by means of forced collectivization and industrialization, programs that entailed tremendous human suffering and loss of life.

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Napoleon says that he and a special committee will make all the decisions, just as Stalin and his highest party members made all the decisions.
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The animals are unhappy with Napoleon’s leadership style and want to rebel, just as the Russian people under Stalin wanted to rebel.
C
Napoleon announces that he will bring together all the farms so that all the work and rewards are shared, just as Stalin took over all the farms for the state.
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The animals have to meet on Sundays to show their commitment to Napoleon, just as the people had to set Sundays aside in honor of Stalin.
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Read the excerpt from Animal Farm and the passage on the history of the Soviet Union.On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations. The plans, however, had all been prepared, down to the last detail. A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks. The building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years.That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers.In November 1927, Joseph Stalin launched his "revolution from above” by setting two extraordinary goals for Soviet domestic policy: rapid industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. His aims were to erase all traces of the capitalism that had entered under the New Economic Policy and to transform the Soviet Union as quickly as possible, without regard to cost, into an industrialized and completely socialist state.Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, adopted by the party in 1928, called for rapid industrialization of the economy, with an emphasis on heavy industry. It set goals that were unrealistic—a 250 percent increase in overall industrial development and a 330 percent expansion in heavy industry alone. All industry and services were nationalized, managers were given predetermined output quotas by central planners, and trade unions were converted into mechanisms for increasing worker productivity. Many new industrial centers were developed, particularly in the Ural Mountains, and thousands of new plants were built throughout the country. But because Stalin insisted on unrealistic production targets, serious problems soon arose. With the greatest share of investment put into heavy industry, widespread shortages of consumer goods occurred.

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Napoleon has stolen the plans for the windmill from Snowball, just as Stalin took his ideas for industrialization and collectivization from Trotsky.
B
Napoleon wants to make the farm an industrial power, just as Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union an industrial power no matter the sacrifices.
C
Napoleon uses Squealer to communicate his ideas to the animals, just as Stalin used his assistants to spread propaganda to the people.
D
Napoleon sets forth a five-year plan to build the windmill, just as Stalin launched several five-year plans to build up industry and agriculture in the Soviet Union.
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Which statements describe characteristics of allegory? Select three options.It includes a conflict between characters and nature.It comments on an abstract theory or historical event.It involves a tough choice one character has to make.It occurs throughout the entire length of a story.It contains meanings of social or political significance.

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It includes a conflict between characters and nature.
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It comments on an abstract theory or historical event.
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It involves a tough choice one character has to make.
D
It occurs throughout the entire length of a story.
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It contains meanings of social or political significance.
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What are the effects of Napoleon’s announcement? Select two options.

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The animals are surprised and dismayed.
B
Snowball runs out of the meeting and is expelled.
C
Boxer faithfully takes the news to be a good idea.
D
Napoleon runs after Snowball in anger.
E
Napoleon’s dogs threaten the pigs into silence.
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Read the excerpt from Animal Farm and the passage on the history of the Soviet Union.In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs. His imagination had now run far beyond chaff-cutters and turnip-slicers. Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater. By the time he had finished speaking, there was no doubt as to which way the vote would go. But just at this moment Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard him utter before.At this there was a terrible baying sound outside, and nine enormous dogs wearing brass-studded collars came bounding into the barn. They dashed straight for Snowball, who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws. In a moment he was out of the door and they were after him. Too amazed and frightened to speak, all the animals crowded through the door to watch the chase. Snowball was racing across the long pasture that led to the road. He was running as only a pig can run, but the dogs were close on his heels. Suddenly he slipped and it seemed certain that they had him. Then he was up again, running faster than ever, then the dogs were gaining on him again. One of them all but closed his jaws on Snowball's tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time. Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party. The machinery of coercion had previously been used only against opponents of Bolshevism, not against party members themselves. The first victims were Politburo members Leon Trotskii, Grigorii Zinov'ev, and Lev Kamenev, who were defeated and expelled from the party in late 1927.

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Snowball's quick escape under the hedge is similar to how Stalin was expelled.
B
Snowball’s ideas about work relate to the Stalin’s efforts to gain total control.
C
Napoleon removes Snowball for his own purposes just as Stalin removed those in his own party.
D
Snowball's dream for the animals on the farm is the same as the dream of the Communist Party.
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What is an internal conflict in a literary work?

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a conflict between characters who are related
B
a conflict between a character and the environment
C
a conflict between the two main characters in a story
D
a conflict between a character and himself or herself

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