Which statement uses the word snake in a positive and figurative way? He took my savings, the snake, and then seemed to totally disappear.
The salesman seemed smooth and deadly as a snake to the customers.
She moved fast like a snake but fortunately did not enjoy eating live mice.
The snake we discovered hiding in the woodshed was nearly seven feet long

the third one

Explanation:

saying someone is fast is positive but you are not really saying that is one

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.