Question

Read the passage from chapter 2 of Animal Farm.

But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing. They had not been milked for twenty-four hours, and their udders were almost bursting. After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task. Soon there were five buckets of frothing creamy milk at which many of the animals looked with considerable interest.

"What is going to happen to all that milk?” said someone.

"Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash,” said one of the hens.

"Never mind the milk, comrades!” cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. "That will be attended to. The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting.”

So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.

Which quotation from the context of this passage is an example of foreshadowing?

“The pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully.”
“In the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.”
“The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way.”
“‘What is going to happen to all that milk?’ said someone.”

Answer 1

Answer: “‘What is going to happen to all that milk?’ said someone.”

Reason: That question anticipates a future event and hints that the milk will be used or taken later — which it is. The other lines describe present action or the later discovery, not a hint of what’s to come.