Read the passage from chapter 2 of Animal Farm. Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside the door of the farmhouse. That was theirs too, but they were frightened to go inside. After a moment, however, Snowball and Napoleon butted the door open with their shoulders and the animals entered in single file, walking with the utmost care for fear of disturbing anything. They tiptoed from room to room, afraid to speak above a whisper and gazing with a kind of awe at the unbelievable luxury, at the beds with their feather mattresses, the looking-glasses, the horsehair sofa, the Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the drawing-room mantelpiece. What does the farmhouse represent in the story? a palace a jailhouse a church a storeroom

In this excerpt of Animal Farm, the farmhouse is seen as a palace. The book references the Russian Revolution, and the way the hopes of the people did not realize after the rebellion. In this case, the farmhouse is seen as a royal palace. When the animals enter it, they are amazed at the luxury that they encounter. They are also fearful about touching anything. This mimics the people's reaction when learning how the royal family lived.