Many Faces of Britain
British Empire
American Politics Today
Catcher in the Rye
Small Words, Big Thoughts
100
What are the names of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom
England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
100
What big country in Asia did we talk about quite a bit during this course?
India
100
What are the names of the two main parties in the US?
The Democrats and the Republicans
100
What is the name of the school Holden was kicked out off in the beginning of the novel?
Pencey Prep(aratory) School
100
What was the title of the short story we first read in this course?
Exams by Ben Halls (2020)
200
What is the name of the current UK Prime Minister?
Keir Starmer
200
Which one of the texts from this course is this image from?
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
200
BONUS QUESTION: You get 100 points for each of the SoMe-candidates from the course you can mention. You get 1 minute and 30 seconds.
J. D. Vance
Kamala Harris
Ron DeSantis
Gavin Newsom
Donald Trump Junior
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
200
What analytical term best describes Holden's way of narrating the story?
He is an unreliable narrator
200
What do the stories Bell Jar, Hate U Give, If Beale Street Could Talk, and You Are Here all have in common?
They all have a female main character!
300
What is the name of the family in whose house Harry lives in the beginning of the Philosopher's Stone?
The Dursleys
300
Name two of the three poems we read in this course:
"Rule Britannia", "White Man's Burden, and "Checking out Me History"
300
The name MAGA is an acronym. What do the fours letters stand for?
Make America Great Again.
300
What is the name of the girl, Holden goes on a date with in New York City?
Sally Hayes
300
BONUS ROUND: You get 100 point for all the authors from this cause you can mention within 1 minute.
Ben Halls, Sylvia Plath, Angie Thomas, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, and Dana Miltins
400
Mention one theme that the poems "Listen Mr Oxford Don" and "Checking out Me History" have in common?
Fighting against the curriculum and norms of the established school system and curriculum.
400
Finish the lyrics:
"You can own the earth and still
_________________________
______________________________"
from Colors of the Wind
"You can own the earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind"
400
The US House of Representatives has 435 seats.
The US Senate has 100 seats.
Explain the numbers of seats in relation to the states.
The seats of the House of Representatives are proportinal to states' populations.
In the US Senate, all 50 state is represented by 2 senators.
400
What specific item is Holden's memory of his brother Allie?
A baseball mitt (glove)
400
Finish the quote from The Bell Jar:
"I felt like a ______ in a world without ______ "
"I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks"
500
Make two thematic connections between this course and other courses from the curriculum.
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500
Name 3 important things you look for, when doing a postcolonial reading:
Identity, representation, power and discourse/language, culture, and hybridity
500
Find 3 different rhetorical devices in the following quote:
"Democracy is not a spectator sport. It requires sacrifice. It demands courage. And it never, ever comes free.
Every single one of them kept that promise, even when it might have or did cost them everything.
And now we stand here in our comfortable suits, in our air-conditioned chamber, and we're being asked: "will you honor that promise? Or will you spit on their graves?""
- Michael Garrett
Metaphor (imagery, anaphora, antithesis, and rhetorical question
500
What character in the story has the most positive influence on Holden and his mental state?
(Old) Phoebe Caulfield
500
What specific object in the short story "You Are Here" is the title a reference to?
A magnet of the universe on the fridge.