Literature in Context
This playwright wrote the play MacBeth
Who is William Shakespeare?
This empire claimed that the sun never set upon it.
What is the British Empire?
This is common meeting place in Britain where people eat and drink. In the past it served as a living room and kitchen for families and workers whose homes only had bedrooms.
What is a pub?
He is the Vice President of the USA
Who is JD Vance
This government agency aims to remove illegal immigrants and to enforce customs laws
What is ICE?
This author wrote the novel The Handmaid’s Tale
Who is Margaret Atwood?
In this year India gained independence from the United Kingdom.
What happened in 1947?
This referendum deeply divided British society and completely changed the UK’s relation to Europe.
What is Brexit?
These are the two houses of Congress?
What are the House of Representatives and Senate?
This is, outside of the military, considered the most important kind of power and influence the US has.
What is soft power?
Finish the title of this novel: “Frankenstein, or……”
a Modern Prometheus
These are the two houses of Parliament.
What are the House of Commons and the House of Lords?
This book series was a powerful example of soft power, spreading British culture, lifestyle, not to mention weird sports like Quidditch around the world.
What is Harry Potter?
This is the president who abolished slavery, starting the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This artist, who performed at the Super Bowl halftime show, has shown much criticism to Trump’s immigration policies.
Who is Bad Bunny?
The Romantic movement was a reaction to this historic revolution
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is the process by which the individual nations within the UK gained some sovereignty, their own parliaments, while they remained in the union and recognize the Crown as the head of state.
What is devolution?
This is the apartment complex which burned, killing 72 people in 2017. The majority of inhabitants were low-income and authorities had not taken heed to their repeated worries.
What is Grenfell Tower?
This is the ideology that God granted the USA the right to expand its territory in order to spread democracy and capitalism
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is a Christian alternative to explaining evolution. Some schools in the US offer this explanation in science class.
What is "creationism"?
This is a literary movement which is based on the idea that we can never understand existence and reality, so authors rather aim to communicate subjective experience.
This is the term for how political parties win seats in Parliament—wherein the candidate with most votes in a constituency wins that seat.
What is "first past the post"?
This refers to a subculture of football supporters who also behave with belligerence and violence in support of their favorite teams (and their drunken antics).
What is "hooliganism"?
This is the process of changing voting districts and maps to ensure more votes for Republicans or for Democrats
What is "gerrymandering"?
This documentary revealed details of the First Lady’s everyday life. It received poor reviews.
What is "Melania"?