Civics
What is representative democracy?
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
What is a Refugee?
This Midwestern city is nicknamed “Motor City” for its history in automobile manufacturing.
What is Detroit?
The pastime were Ishmael and his friends focused on when the war first reached their village in Chapter 1?
What is listening to and performing rap music (and traveling to perform at a talent show).
The appropriate response to this word is a focus on the speaker and 2 claps.
What is READY!?
The system used in the United States to elect the President.
What is the Electoral College
War, Natural Disasters, Political Instability, Economic Hardship
What are Push Factors?
This famous American writer from Missouri wrote about life along the Mississippi and created the characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
This key experience in Kamator forces Ishmael to begin surviving completely on his own?
What is the rebel attack of Kamator, the villagers scatter, and Ishmael loses track of Junior and the others—beginning his period of true isolation.
Something no student or staff member should wear to Prospect High School.
What is gear/apparel from another high school (especially a rival).
A group that favors higher levels of government service and thus is open to higher taxes.
Who are liberals?
A non voluntary migrant whose journey kept them in their own country.
The real name of the massive steel sculpture in Chicago, nicknamed “The Bean.”
What is Cloud Gate?
In Chapter 7, Ishmael witness this in the village of Kabati that becomes one of his earliest traumatic memories of the war?
What is a pile of dead bodies, including the horrific image of a man’s corpse with his intestines spilling out.
The button sequence to produce Ryu's fireball
(HADUEKEN!!!!)
Down - Back - A
A style of government in which power is seized by force. The leader often focuses on maintaining his/her own power rather than the good of the people.
What is a dictatorship?
A problem for countries with large emigrant populations, this is the loss of highly educated and skilled people to other countries.
What is Brain Drain?
These thieves, self styled the "Wet Bandits, are the bad guys trying to rob the McAllister home in "Home Alone"
Who are Harry and Marv?
The item of food do Ishmael and the boys steal from a little boy in order to survive during their first days on the run?
What is corn?
Who are the Guards?
The number of members of the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
About how many immigrants currently call the United States home? (Range of 6 millions - 3 high or low)
What is 47.8 million?
(44.8-50.8)
The name of a place, this word, meaning "best people" or "superior tribe", is derived from the language of several Algonquian-speaking tribes living in the upper Mississippi River valley.
What is Illinois?
The name of the nurse at Benin home who Ishmael connects with.
Who is Esther?
Who is Alex Palczewski?