The single most important component of the American dream
What is Success
100
Appeal to Emotions
What is Pathos
100
The first name of the Protagonist
What is Chris
100
The world's reserve currency
What is the dollar
100
The preposition you typically use when talking about time
What is "in"
200
The "thing" people most often associate with achieving the American Dream
What is Money
200
Appeal to Reason
What is Loggos
200
The first name of the protagonist's son
What is Christopher
200
A component of all modern money creation, that leads to inflation and means that there is never enough money in circulation
What is interest
200
A category of nouns that must always be written with a initial capitalised letter
What are weekdays/months/titles/names/languages/countries etc.
300
An obstacle in real life American which ccan make the realization of the American dream more difficult for individuals
What is Racism/Inequality/Poverty/Lack of educcation etc.
300
Appeal to or boost of a writer's trustworthiness
What is Ethos
300
Two obstacles to success and happyness that the protagonists faces in the story
What is divorce, losing his home, needing to sell expensive mahines, unpaid taxes taken directly from his bank account, racism at his workplace... to name a few
300
How new, digital money is created on a daily basis by comercial banks
What is a bank loan
300
The Danish grammatical term for proper cohesion between the subject and the inflection of the verb in a clause
What is "Kongruens"
400
The names of two celebrities who can be said to have achieved the American dream
What is Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steve Jobs (for instance)
400
The same word(s) repeated at the beginning of several lines following each other in a text
What is anaphora
400
The three inalienable and self-evident human rights that all Americans share
What is "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happyness"
400
The name of the privately owned institutions which oversees monetary policy in America
What is the Federal Reserve
400
The English name for a special class of nouns which always take the 3rd person inflection of the verb
What are uncountables (or uncountable nouns)
500
The traditional, but currently least popular, requirement for achieving the dream in post-2000 America
What is hard work
500
The same word(s) repeated at the end of several lines following each other in a text
What is epiphora
500
The important founding document of the USA, which the title of the film refers to
What is The declaration of independence
500
The overall name of the system which allows banks to create more money than they have values "on deposit"
What is Fractional Reserve Banking
500
The correct plural forms of the three nouns "Tooth", "Elf", "Dwarf" (you must write them on the board)