Question

animal farm
by george orwell
as winter drew on, mollie became more and more troublesome. she was late for work every morning and excused herself by saying that she had overslept, and she complained of mysterious pains, although her appetite was excellent. on every kind of pretext she would run away from work and go to the drinking pool, where she would stand foolishly gazing at her own reflection in the water. but there were also rumours of something more serious. one day, as mollie strolled blithely into the yard, flirting her long tail and chewing at a stalk of hay, clover took her aside.
\mollie,\ she said, \i have something very serious to say to you. this morning i saw you looking over the hedge that divides animal farm from foxwood. one of mr. pilkingtons men was standing on the other side of the hedge. and—i was a long way away, but i am almost certain i saw this—he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose. what does that mean, mollie?\
\he didnt! i wasnt! it isnt true!\ cried mollie, beginning to prance about and paw the ground.
\mollie! look me in the face. do you give me your word of honour that that man was not stroking your nose?\
how does the conflict in the animal farm excerpt relate to the events in the historical passage?

• snowballs dream for the animals on the farm is the same as the dream of the communist party.
• napoleon removes snowball for his own purposes just as stalin removed those in his own party.
• snowballs ideas about work relate to the stalins efforts to gain total control.
• snowballs quick escape under the hedge is similar to how stalin was expelled

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the historical allusions in Animal Farm. Napoleon (representing Stalin) removing Snowball mirrors Stalin's purges of party members. The first option misaligns Snowball's dream with the Communist Party (Snowball's ideas are more like Trotsky's, while Napoleon is Stalin). The third option confuses Snowball (Trotsky - like) with Stalin's control. The fourth option is incorrect as Snowball's escape isn't like Stalin's expulsion (Stalin stayed, Trotsky was expelled). So the correct one is the second option about Napoleon removing Snowball as Stalin removed party members.

Answer:

Napoleon removes Snowball for his own purposes just as Stalin removed those in his own party.