Which statements about the passage support the idea that
this passage is an allegory for the famine in the Soviet
Union? Select three options.
The food rations have been cut and animals are starving
The windmill has collapsed and people are talking about
Read the passage from Animal Farm
in January food fell short. The com ration was drastically
reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration
would be issued to make up for it. Then it was discovered
that the greater part of the potato crop had been frosted in
the clamps, which had not been covered thickly enough
The potatoes had become soft and discoloured, and only a
few were edible. For days at a time the animals had
nothing to eat but chaff and mangels, Starvation seemed to
stare them in the face.
it was vitally necessary to conceal this fact from the outside
world. Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the
of the windmill the
human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm.
Once again it was being put about that all the animals were
dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually
Fighting among themselves and had resorted to
cannibalism and infanticide Napoleon was well aware of
he bad results that might follow if the real facts of the food
The animals have never had contact with Mr. Whymper.
The reality of the food shortage is hidden from the public
Napoleon resorts to propaganda to spread lies.