Question

which statement best summarizes the author’s overall reason for writing chapter 7?
○ orwell reveals how both stalin and napoleon cast blame on outside forces for problems they created themselves.
○ orwell uses snowball’s expulsion and role as a scapegoat to symbolize trotsky, whom stalin had driven from power during the russian revolution.
○ orwell demonstrates that most animals lack intelligence by showing how those on animal farm cannot run the farm efficiently or feed themselves.
○ orwell draws a parallel between stalin’s great purge and the deaths of a number of animals as an example of how dictators use fear to maintain power.

Explanation:

To determine the best summary, we analyze each option:

• Option 1: Focuses on blame - casting, but the overall reason for Chapter 7 in Animal Farm is more about the Great Purge parallel.
• Option 2: Snowball's expulsion is more about Trotsky's exile, but Chapter 7's main theme is the Great Purge - like killings.
• Option 3: The book doesn't aim to show animals' lack of intelligence; it's a political allegory.
• Option 4: Chapter 7 in Animal Farm has Napoleon (representing Stalin) conducting purges (killings of animals), paralleling Stalin's Great Purge, to show how dictators use fear (via these deaths) to stay in power. This captures the overall reason for the chapter's content.

Answer:

D. Orwell draws a parallel between Stalin’s Great Purge and the deaths of a number of animals as an example of how dictators use fear to maintain power.