Question

Read the passage from Animal Farm.

Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs. But the pigs were so clever that they could think of a way round every difficulty. . . .

. . . They met with many difficulties—for instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine.

What social commentary about communist Russia does Orwell make with this excerpt?

Russians faced many challenges and struggles working on collective farms.
Russians lacked the creative abilities to innovate solutions to problems.
Russians were able to predict and avoid potential struggles.
Russians lacked knowledge of basic modern agricultural practices.

Answer 1

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Comment and answer

I'd pick A. It is straight forward and a direct comment that is factual and true.

It can't be B. The pigs could get around most things and the Russians made it into space first. The Russians do not lack for either creative solutions or imagination.

C is likely true, but it is not the main point.

D has never been true. But how does one implement innovation if there is very little industry to do it? If they seemed to lack knowledge it was because there was no industry to develop that knowledge.