Readings from Class
What does "The Dictator Game" teach us about?
accept all reasonable answers
________________ is the process in which more and more people move to cities and leave their rural homes.
Urbanisation
What is the biggest island in the world?
Greenland
In what country was Adolf Hitler born?
Austria
In the story about Emmett Till, how did Chicago and Mississippi differ?
Black Americans enjoyed relative freedom, but the American South was governed by strict, unwritten laws of racial segregation known as "Jim Crow." In Mississippi, Black people were expected to act completely submissive around white people.
She's a ______________ woman. She always gives her clothes, old items and even some cash the organisations that help poor people.
charitable, generous
Name the four stages of the water cycle.
evaporation (and transpiration), condensation, precipitation, collection
Of the people we looked at over the past three lessons, which person sent millions of people to gulags to work as slave labor?
Joseph Stalin
In "How Do We Protect the World's Water", what is the biggest user of water according the the reading?
agriculture
A man faced ______________ of theft and assault by the shop owner. However, his alibi said he was at the beach with his friends when it happened.
allegations
Which of these Chinese cities is the furthest south?
Nanjing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Xi'an
Chongqing
According to Caroline Bryant, what happened when Emmett Till was in her store?
She claimed he whistled at her, and told her, "It's OK, I've been with a white woman before."
Mark Riddell played what role in the scheme discussed in "Is Money More Important Than Good Grades"?
He took tests for students, and could get an almost perfect score.
This person will try to send somebody to jail using evidence in a trial. They are a lawyer, but they also have another name when they try to convict someone of a crime.
prosecuter
What are the four most spoken language in the world?
English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish
What role did Mose Wright play in the Emmett Till case?
He was Emmett's great-uncle, and Emmett stayed at Mose's home when he visted Mississippi. Mose also testified at the trial, pointing at the two men who killed Emmett.