Animal Farm Webquest
An Online Scavenger Hunt Directions: Please use the suggested links as well as links of your own choice to find answers
to each of the questions below. Type your answers on a separate piece of paper. Be sure to
paraphrase your answers based on the information you find on the internet. Happy hunting!
A. For questions 1-4, please refer to the following site:
http://www.george-orwell.org/l_biography.html
1. What was George Orwell’s real name?
2. Where was Orwell born, and where did he live most of his life?
3. What were Orwells’ political views?
4. In what year was Animal Farm first published, and what war had just ended?
B. For questions 5-7, refer to the following site:
http://science.jrank.org/pages/11296/Socialism-Socialism-versus-Communism.html
5. What is socialism?
6. What is communism?
7. What are the common goals/failures of socialism and communism? (hint: utopia means
“an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects”)
C. For questions 8-14, please use the following webpage and links:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/redflag/description.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution
8. Who was the Czar (or Tsar) or Russia before the Russian Revolution (and during
World War I)?
9. What became of this Czar and his family?
10. What happened during the February Revolution of 1917 (first phase of the Russian
Revolution)?
11. What happened during the October Revolution of 1917 (second phase of the Russian
Revolution)?
12. Who led the October Revolution?
13. Who were the Bolsheviks?
14. Who was Vladimir Lenin, and what were the major ideas of “Leninism”? (hint: follow the
web site’s “Bolshevik” link to the “Lenin” link to the “Leninism” link)
D. For questions 15-19 use the following site:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstalin.htm
15. Who was Josef Stalin, and what kind of ruler was he?
16. What was Stalin’s relationship to Leon Trotsky?
17. Who was Leon Trotsky? Why did he leave Russia?
18. What was the Great Purge characterized by? Who was punished and how? How many
were killed?
19. What is collectivization? Who were the Kulaks and what happened to them?
E. Please refer to the following site to answer question 20:
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sovintro.php
20. What were some reasons Lenin and Stalin used propaganda? Skim over the posters—
what are the posters encouraging people to do?