After much thought snowball declared that the seven commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim, namely: “four legs good, two legs bad.” this, he said, contained the essential principle of animalism. what does this decision by snowball foreshadow? a)snowball will try to get his way by tricking the animals into thinking in overly simplistic terms. b) soon animalism will no longer be relevant to the animal society. c) the animals will hold an election to change the commandments. d) snowball is getting too old to remember each commandment

The best answer here is choice A. Snowball and the other pigs want to trick the other animals into bending to their wills. The simple maxim, which is to separate the humans from the animals, will eventually lead to the separation of the four legged animals from the two legged animals.

While the other answer choices could work, looking at the context of the book itself, we can determine that they don't make much sense. Animalism is intrinsic to the society on the farm, so choice B doesn't make much sense. Because the pigs are insistent on their ruling, choice C doesn't make much sense either. There is no indication that Snowball is too old to remember the maxim, so choice D does't make much sense either.