Chapter 9

• What was Boxer's one real ambition?

  To see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement
• How old was Boxer?

  12 years of age.
• What was going to be built in the farmhouse garden?

  A schoolroom
• How much beer were the pigs receiving daily? What about Napoleon?

  The pigs were receiving a pint of beer daily. Napoleon had a half gallon.
• What happened in April?

  Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President.
• According to Moses what was Sugar Candy Mountain like?

  There are everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges.
• How did Boxer get hurt?

  Boxer went out late one night to drag a load of stone down to the windmill was laying between the shafts of a cart, his neck stretched out, unable to even raise his head;his eyes glazed, his sides matted with sweat and a thin stream of blood trickled out of his mouth. Boxer said in a weak voice, "It's my lung".
• What was Boxer's fate?

  He got taken away and slaughtered.
• What did Squealer announce to the animals concerning Boxer's death?

  That Boxer had died in the hospital at Willingdon. Squealer said, "It was the most affecting sight I have ever seen!"
• What did the pigs purchase at the end of the chapter? Where do you think they got the money?

  The pigs purchased a barrel of Whiskey. They got the money from the Knacker who took Boxer away.
• At the beginning of the chapter, what state is Boxer in?

  His split hoof was still in the process of healing. It troubled him a great deal and he was in pain.
• Why does Napoleon educate the pigs?

  To get more power to himself and the other pigs.
• Describe the events of the Spontaneous Demonstration.

  Animals would march around in military formation, after there were recitations of poems,a speech from Squealer and sometimes a shot of a gun.
• How does Napoleon benefit from Boxer's ill condition?

  By selling Boxer to the knacker for which he gets money to buy the whiskey. Then makes up a story about Boxer to make the animals work harder.