Question

Read the passage from chapter 2 of Animal Farm.

Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. That was theirs too, but they were frightened to go inside. After a moment, however, Snowball and Napoleon butted the door open with their shoulders and the animals entered in single file, walking with the utmost care for fear of disturbing anything. They tiptoed from room to room, afraid to speak above a whisper and gazing with a kind of awe at the unbelievable luxury, at the beds with their feather mattresses, the looking-glasses, the horsehair sofa, the Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the drawing-room mantelpiece.

What does the farmhouse represent in the story?

a palace
a jailhouse
a church
a storeroom

Answer 1

a palace

Explanation: the farmhouse represents the luxury and privilege of the ruling class — the humans' comfortable residence that the animals view as a grand, royal place and which the pigs later occupy, mirroring how leaders take on elite comforts.