Question

Study the timeline of Russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of Animal Farm.

Answer 1

The historical event that this passage most represents is The Rise of Lenin given the fact that the uproar made by the animals marks the beginning of a new era for the animals, which in history it makes allusion to the beginning of the Communist Party established under the principles of Communism that Lenin himself had founded as one of its fathers, and the principles of both Communism and Animalism are alike. Adittional information is that the song the animal sang was "Beasts of England," whose author was Old Major, the character whom Orwell represents as Lenin and Marx in this book, and it was Old Major who began Animalism to overthrow the dictatorship of man.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A: Bloody Sunday