American Dream and Reality
Hvilket sætningsled skal verballeddet passe til ved kongruens? (latinsk betegnelse)
Subjekt
Hvilket relativpronomen bruges ved genitiv?
Whose
Hvilken ordklasse lægger adverbiet sig til i denne sætning?:
They are really happy
Adjektiv (happy)
Hvad kaldes det, når en sætning er præget af hovedsætninger?
Paratakse / parataxis
Hvilken tid har verballedet i denne sætning?:
He had seen her before
Pluskvamperfektum
What does JD Vance define his own people as - hence the title of his memoir from 2016?
Hillbillies
What dish does Robin Cook use as a metaphor in his speech about multiculturalism and Britishness?
Chicken Tikka Masala
What does the man in Stephen King’s ”The Man Who Loved Flowers” carry around in his pocket?
A hammer
Which decade is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby from?
The 1920s
(Takes place in 1922 and was published in 1925)
At which British university is Sir Mohan Lal so proud of having studied in Khushwant Singh’s ”Karma”?
Oxford
What is according to Barack Obama in his "A More Perfect Union" speech the nation's "original sin", which goes against the American ideals of equality and liberty from the birth of the nation.
slavery
What is the term (an abbreviation) used for the version of English influenced by immigrants and spoken in British cities like London?
MLE (Multicultural London English)
What type of first person narrator do we have in Nick Cave’s ”Song of Joy”?
Unrealiable narrator
In which fictional part of Long Island do Daisy & Tom Buchanan and other old money people live?
East Egg
Which year did British colonial rule in India stop and the Partition take place?
1947
Which social class do JD Vance, B-Rabbit and the lyrical 'I' in the Springsteen song "The River" all come from?
(White) working class
What do the parts of the world that Benjamin Zephaniah’s parents and Sarfraz Manzoor’s parents come from have in common?
They are former British colonies
What is the name of the psychiatrist that Lester Billings visits to explain about the killing of his three children in King’s ”The Boogeyman”?
Dr Harper
What criminal business seems to have been the reason for Gatsby's wealth?
Bootlegging
What is the name of the northern region of the Indian subcontinent, which both Pakistan and India claim?
Kashmir
What was the saying / philosophy of the young Arnold Schwarzenegger to ensure his continual growth?
Stay hungry
Which term describes the total adaptation of the majority culture by the minority culture ?
Assimilation
According to Todorov, what type of story do we have when the hesitation lasts, and we cannot decide whether the supernatural events really did happen?
Purely fantastic
What is the full name of the persons present in the hot suite at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan when The Great Gatsby reaches its climax?
Nick Carraway
Jordan Baker
Daisy Buchanan
Tom Buchanan
Jay Gatsby (aka James Gatz)
According to postcolonial theory, what is the term for what Sir Mohan Lal does when he tries so hard to be like the British?
Mimicry