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This novel starts in this year and ends in that year.
What are 2024 and 2027?
This figure of speech uses extreme exaggeration for emphasis or humor, as in "I've told you a million times!"
What is hyperbole?
This Supreme Court case from 1989 ruled that burning the American flag as a form of protest is protected under the First Amendment.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
The author wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What are mitochondria?
Lauren Olamina suffers from this condition, caused by her mother's prenatal drug use, which makes her feel the physical pain and pleasure of others around her.
What is hyperempathy?
This figure of speech directly compares two unlike things using "like" or "as," such as in the phrase "busy as a bee."
What is a simile?
This Native American tribe, the largest by population in the U.S., is renowned for their WWII "Code Talkers" who used their unwritten language to create an unbreakable code for military communications.
What is the Navajo?
This term refers to the distance around a circle, calculated as 2 times pi times the radius.
What is circumference?
This first governing document of the United States, adopted in 1777, created a weak central government with no power to tax or regulate commerce, leading to economic chaos and events like Shays' Rebellion.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Lauren confides her fears about the community's vulnerability to this friend in 2025, leading to a conversation with her father about preparing emergency packs and increasing neighborhood watches.
Who is Joanne?
This figure of speech makes an indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work, such as calling a forbidden love "star-crossed" in nod to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
What is an allusion?
In this Santha Rama Rau short story set in British India, a schoolteacher enforces assimilation by renaming Indian students like Premila and Santha with Western names such as Pamela and Cynthia.
What is By Any Other Name?
This South American country, the fifth-largest in the world by area, is home to the Amazon Rainforest and shares borders with every other nation on the continent except Chile and Ecuador.
What is Brazil?
This author wrote East of Eden.
What is John Steinbeck?
Lauren's father told her about this story when her fears about the outside were made known to him.
What is Noah and the ark?
This figure of speech implicitly equates two dissimilar things to create a vivid image or deeper meaning, as in Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage," where life is compared to a theatrical performance.
What is a metaphor?
This term describes the process by which individuals or groups adopt the cultural norms of a dominant society, often leading to the loss of their original identity, as illustrated in stories like "By Any Other Name."
What is assimilation?
This law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, often demonstrated by the recoil of a fired gun or the thrust of a rocket engine.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This 1803 acquisition from France doubled the size of the United States, adding over 800,000 square miles of territory west of the Mississippi River for just $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This politician, elected U.S. president in 2024, vows to abolish the nation's space program and suspend minimum wage, environmental, and worker protection laws in a bid to encourage employers to hire and train the homeless.
Who is President Donner?
This advanced figure of speech attributes human emotions, actions, or qualities to abstract concepts or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
In Supreme Court decisions, these two types of opinions represent the prevailing view of the justices and the opposing arguments from those who disagree.
What are Majority and Dissent?
This 1945 agreement between the Allied leaders at this location divided Germany into four occupation zones and demanded unconditional surrender from Japan, setting the stage for the atomic bombings and the Cold War's early tensions.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This major southwestern U.S. river flows through the Grand Canyon, supplies water to millions across several states including Arizona, and is dammed to create large reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
What is the Colorado River?