Novel Study
Africa
Civil Rights Movement
U.S.S.R.
Iran
100

Which character in Animal Farm is the deliverer of propaganda?

Squealer

100

At which meeting did European nations make decisions about how to divide up Africa?

The Berlin Conference

100

What was the practice of separating races called?

Segregation

100

What was the name of the U.S.S.R.'s brutal dictator?

Stalin

100

In what year did the Islamic Revolution occur?

1979

200

Under what kind of tree does Trevor get bullied by other boys in Born a Crime?

Mulberry

200

What was the name of the slum-like neighborhood in which Black people lived in South Africa?

Soweto

200

What was the nickname for the laws that kept African Americans from equal rights?

Jim Crow Laws

200

What was the name of the army that Trotsky set up?

Red Army

200

What is the main religion in Iran?

Islam

300

Which relative is Marjane's hero in Persepolis?

Uncle Anoosh

300

Three racial classifications in South Africa were Colored, White and Black. What was the fourth classification?

Indian

300

What was the name of the organization that trained college students in peaceful resistance?

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

300

Which leader was removed when the people revolted in 1917?

Tsar Nicolas II

300

In America, we have a democracy. What type of government does Iran have?

Theocracy

400

In which city and state does The Outsiders take place?

Tulsa, Oklahoma

400

What does the word "apartheid" translate to in English?

Apartness

400

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that enforced the integration of schools nation-wide?

Brown v. Board of Education

400

What was the term for councils made up of workers, soldiers and peasants?

Soviets

400

Which country attacked Iran in 1980?

Iraq

500

In March Book One, at which important historical event did John Lewis deliver a speech before MLK did?

The March on Washington

500

What were the three main motives for the Europeans' colonization of Africa?

Economic, political and religious

500

Which church did the KKK bomb in Birmingham, Alabama, resulting in the deaths of four girls?

16th Street Baptist Church

500

Fill in the blank: The U.S.S.R. was a _______________ state.

Totalitarian

500

What product is most exported to other countries from Iran?

Oil

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