Read the passage from Animal Farm
Which statement about the passage best reflects the
influence of a totalitarian dictator?
the inability of the animals to sleep night
x the increased discomfort the animals feel
the continued belief that the key was stolen
the refusal to capture Snowball
Suddenly, early in the spring, an alarming thing was
discovered Snowball was secretly frequenting the farm
by night! The animals were so disturbed that they could
hardly sleep in their stalls. Every night, it was said, he
came creeping in under cover of darkness and
performed all kinds of mischief. He stole the corn, he
upset the milk pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled
the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees.
Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to
attribute it to Snowball. If a window was broken or a
drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that
Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when
the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was
convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well.
Curiously enough, they went on believing this even
after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal.
The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept
THE ANSWER IS C
