History Time
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History Time II
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100
Who took the French Language, the knights and the castles to England?
The Normans
100
Who had a detached, ironic, witty style of writing?
Jane Austen
100
What were Beowulf's themes?
determination to fight untill the end
struggle against evil forces
betrayal
heroic ideal
100
What was the Enlightenment?
a movement with focus on the reason and the scientific
100
What book talks about the colonization in Africa and its horrors, despite being written by a nationalist?
Joseph Conrad's The heart of Darkness
200
What's the difference between warriors and knights?
Kights are mounted, with heavy armor
200
Who was the young novelist who wrote about the reanimation of dead cells?
Mary Shelly
200
What is "Hard Times", by Charles Dickens, about?
The problems industrialization brought to the people
200
Can you explain the hierarchy in Middle English?
200
What poem of William Yeats talks about the repeating cycles of human existence and how they always come crumbling down?
The second coming
300
What was the romanticism?
A movement created by the intellectual elite with focus on the subjectivity, emotions, and nature
300
Who was a master in the use of metaphors to express emotions and philosophical questions?
Shakespeare
300
What love story is about a woman courting a man, and there's a dream sequence in hell where they debate with the devil about philosophical issues such as the importance of trying to make the world a better place?
Man and Superman - George Bernard Shaw
300
During the European imperialism, what happened to the feeling Englishmen had towards their country?
It grew stronger. Nationalism was on the rise
300
Who was Ulysses, from James Joyce, really about?
Dublin
400
What was the Renaissance?
A movement caused by the discovery of hundreds of Greek and Latin manuscripts "lost" during the middle ages. It was the rebirth of philosophy and art
400
Who was the nationalist and imperialist author that wrote about two man misleading less industrialized people to believe they were gods?
Ruyard Kipling - The man who would be king
400
What story was belived to be a real story (and not just fiction) due to being written in first person?
Robinson Crusoe, by William Dafoe
400
What changed with Industrialization?
People began obeying the clock time, and not the natural time, they spent more hours indoors.
400
What is the warning implied in "The time Machine" from HG Wells?
That although industrialization is a good thing, we have to beware of the way we are doing it.
500
What happened to India and the African Continent?
India became a keystone for the British Empire
The African continent was divided into many european colonies
500
Who was the romantic author who was also a painter and wrote about angels and demons portraying symbolically the powers at was inside the human soul?
William Blake
500
In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift uses satire to talk about a contradiction of his time. What contradiction is that?
Although people were more rational and intellectual, they did not live their life as such, giving much emphasis in violence and other vices.
500
Who was Thomas a Becket?
A holy man that was killed by King Henry II. The king was later made to kneel in from of his tomb as a sign of repect and strenght of the church
500
What book is a collection of stories that are told by many different characters from different backgrounds?
The Canterbury tales