America in War
What is an old term for PTSD?
Shell shock
What term describes the systematic monitoring of people, usually by a government or organization?
Surveillance
What do the three witches tell Macbeth?
They prophesize he will become Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland.
Describe the setting of Billy Elliot. Where does he grow up?
Billy grows up in a working-class family in a coal mining town in northern England.
What is the name of the anthropomorphic graphic novel that portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats?
Maus
Er substantivet tooth regelmæssigt eller uregelmæssigt?
uregelmæssigt
tooth --> teeth
At what music festival did the American counterculture and anti-war movement become cemented in history?
Woodstock Festival 1969
What is the opposite of a dystopia?
Utopia
What is the rhyme scheme?
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
ABABAB
What is the name of the fictional city in The Truman Show?
Seahaven
What’s the name of the short story where a town carries out a violent tradition every year through a random drawing?
The Lottery
Hvilken ordklasse er really
James is really smart.
Adverbium
President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) was the architect of which organization?
League of Nations (later United Nations)
What's the literal meaning of "dystopia"?
The bad place
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these types of poems. They have 14 lines and a fixed rhyme scheme. What are they called?
Sonnets
How is the death of Rosie (Jojo's mom) foreshadowed throughout the movie Jojo Rabbit?
The closeups of her shoes
What’s the name of the autobiography by a Vietnam veteran who becomes strongly opposed to war after returning home? (hint: his birthday is "patriotic")
Born on the Fourth of July
Hvad hedder de fem hovedtider, som verber bøjes i?
Præsens (nutid)
Præteritum (datid)
Perfektum (førnutid)
Pluskvamperfektum (førdatid)
Futurum (fremtid)
What does the abbreviation VVAW stand for?
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Name 3 characteristics that are typical of the dystopian genre.
Control
Fear
Oppression
Surveillance
Propaganda
Imagined future
Rebellion
The protagonist's search for truth
Post-apocalyptic setting
Restriction of freedom of speech
Forced conformity
Controlled information
Anti-individualism
What is the name of Macbeth's companion, whose sons will become kings?
Banquo
Macbeth cannot be defeated until Birnam Wood moves. How does this come true in the movie?
Malcolm's army carries branches and leaves as camouflage while attacking Macbeth’s castle, making it appear as if the forest is moving toward him.
Name two other Shakespeare plays apart from Macbeth.
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
King Lear
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
Julius Caesar
Twelfth Night
Richard III
Much Ado About Nothing
... and about 29 other plays
Er relativsætningen definerende eller parentetisk?
George Mikan, who died in 2005, was a legendary basketball player.
Parentetisk (det kan udelades + der er komma omkring)
What did President George W. Bush name the war he started as a response to 9/11? (Hint: not the Iraq or Afghanistan war)
The War on Terror
What is the main purpose/message of dystopian fiction?
To warn about the future and critique society.
The poets John Keats and William Wordsworth are associated with what literary period which focused on individualism and nature?
Romanticism
In Dead Poets Society, why does Neil ultimately decide to commit suicide?
Neil's strict father won't allow him to pursue his passion of acting, and he forces Neil to go to military school instead of Welton.
What's the name of the dystopian story, where the two children, Peter and Wendy, kill their parents in a futuristic nursery?
The Veldt
Hvad er det foreløbige og egentlige subjekt?
There were many unhappy customers in the store.
Foreløbigt: there
Egentlige: many unhappy customers