Novels/Plays
Gogol's teacher explains how his namesake, Nikolai Gogol, chose to die through this method.
What is starvation?
The couple in "Cat in the Rain" are staying at a hotel in this country.
What is Italy?
This governing document was replaced by the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This concept refers to citizens’ belief that the government has the right to rule.
What is legitimacy?
These two students dressed up as Ms. Clifton and Mr. Waxman
Who are Nazli Goksoy and Spencer Carter?
Who is Buck?
This character says he will measure his life in coffee spoons
J. Alfred Prufrock
This Supreme Court case cemented students' rights to free speech in public schools
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This term describes the transfer of power from a central government to regional or local governments.
What is devolution?
These are the generations represented by Ms. Clifton and Mr. Waxman
Baby Boomer & Millennial
This is Iago's advice to Roderigo in Act I of Othello.
What is "Put money in thy purse"?
In "The Paper Menagerie," Jack eventually "kills" his paper animals by hiding them away in one of these items.
Who is a shoebox?
This term describes the Senate's power to "talk a bill to death," which can only be ended by a cloture vote.
What is the filibuster?
In Iran, candidates for elected office may be disqualified by this powerful unelected body.
What is the Guardian Council?
You know that Mr. Waxman is going to do this to your response during discussions.
What is "push back"?
In All the King's Men, Sadie Burke had this disease as a child
What is smallpox?
You were assigned multiple written works from each of these three authors for this class.
Who are Jhumpa Lahiri, Robert Penn Warren, and William Shakespeare?
This Founding Father proposed the “federal negative” at the Constitutional Convention.
This concept in Nigeria mandates that the government must reflect the country's ethnic and regional diversity
What is the Federal Character Principle?
What is Capitol Hill/Eastern Market?
This is the name of the man who tried to bribe Adam Stanton into running the hospital in All the King's Men.
Who is Hubert Coffee?
In "Evening Hawk," the speaker thinks that if there were no wind, we would hear history "Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the ________."
What is a cellar?
This Constitutional Clause requires states to recognize the legal documents of other states.
What is the Privileges and Immunities Clause?
This term describes a system of government that is in transition and contains elements of authoritarian and democratic governments.
What is an illiberal/hybrid democracy?
This is the combined number of years Ms. Clifton and Mr. Waxman have taught (within 3 years).
How long is 33 years? (26+7)