Question 4 • CMS 2026-2027 English II CREDIT RECOVERY
Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Animal Farm . By the autumn the animals were tired but happy. They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. It was almost half built now. How does the pacing of this passage affect the reader’s interpretation of the text?
Answer
A
Foreshadowing of events provides information as to what will happen to the windmill.
B
The pace of the text quickens to convey the characters’ resolve to finish the windmill.
C
A flashback to earlier events provides a pause in the pacing to slow events down.
D
The pace of the text quickens to move the story to its climax, the completion of the windmill.