Vocabulary
A violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd.
What is a riot?
The cause of Gandhi's death in 1948.
What is assassination?
The two major religions in India.
What are Hinduism and Islam?
The author of the poem “The White Man’s Burden” from 1899.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
Guleri’s cause of death in “A Stench of Kerosene” by Amrita Pritam.
What is suicide?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.
What is imperialism?
The year of the independence of India and division of India and Pakistan.
What is 1947?
The name of the lowest social group in India.
What is Dalit/Untouchable?
The name of the speech by Chimamanda Adichie that we have worked with.
What is The Danger of a Single Story?
The reason the main character in “Shooting an Elephant” gives in the final lines of the story for shooting the elephant.
What is the fear of looking a fool?
The political or cultural condition of a former colony.
What is postcolonialism?
Then century in which the East India Company was established in the south of India.
What is the 17th century?
The official language of Nigeria.
What is English?
The setting in which the short story “Karma” by Kushwant Singh takes place.
What is a railway station?
The description of Mr. Brown as he leaves “his flock” in Things Fall Apart.
What is “sad and broken”?
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; another word for 'native'.
What is indigenous?
The year the Bengal Famine occurred.
What is 1943?
The current name of the nation formerly known as Burma.
What is Myanmar?
The kind of narrator in “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell.
What is a first person narrator?
Okonkwo’s son’s new name in the excerpt from Things Fall Apart.
What is Isaac?
A word that describes something that constitutes a formal defence or justification of a theory or doctrine, such as the British Empire.
What is apologetic?
The decade Gandhi returned to India from South Africa.
What is the 1910s? (1914)
The capital of India.
What is New Delhi?
The kind of figurative language used about Great Britain in the poem “Rule Britannia” by James Thompson.
What is personification?
The description of the colonists (the native people of the colonies) given in the final line of the first stanza of the poem “The White Man’s Burden” from 1899.
What is “half-devil and half-child”?