When were the workers and trade unions legalized in Britain? 1888 1872.
When was the word "feminism" introduced in English dictionaries? In the 1890s In the 1980s.
When did the first organized women's movements appear? In the 1950s. In the 1850s.
Which country was the first to grant the vote to all women over 21 in 1893? New Zealand Australia.
Who founded the British Women's Social and Political Union in 1903? Mary Wollstonecraft Emmeline Pankhurst.
When did women start voting when they were properly owners and over 30? 1928 1918.
When did women over 21 start voting? 1918 1928.
When did the demand for women's suffrage start in America? In the 1900 In the 1840s.
What is considered as the first women's rights convention in 1848? The National American Woman Suffrage Association The Seneca Falls Convention.
Who endorsed women's suffrage in 1912? Theodore Roosevelt Benjamin Franklin .
Why did the outbreak of WWI in 1917 help women's movement to have an impact? Because they had to take care of the soldiers Because women replaced men in their workplaces .
Which was the first US presidential election in which women were allowed to vote in every state? the 1918 election the 1920 election.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) is considered the earliest work of feminist philosophy True False.
Which book is regarded as an important work of American feminist literature written in 1892? Charlotte Perkins' "The Yellow Wallpaper" Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own".
Which one did Virginia Woolf write? The Yellow Wallpaper A Room of One's Own.
What was the name of the House of Windsor before George V renamed it? House of Commons House of Sale-Coburg and Gotha.
What is the Raj? The period of rebellions between British and Indians The period of British rule after the mutiny until the Partition and Independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.
When did the Indian Independence Movement start? During WWI During WWII.
Mahatma Gandhi was the figure of the Indian Independence Movement. True False.
What was the worst disaster in Ireland between 1845 and 1847? The Great Famine The Great Plague.
What did Michael Devitt lead in Ireland? The famine The Land League.
What is the IRA? The British forces The Irish Republican Army.
What Republican Party won in the 1918 election in Ireland? Sean Fean Sinn Féin.
What is known as Bloody Sunday (Nov 21th, 1920)? The day 14 British intelligence operative were assassinated in Dublin The day Ireland declared war to London.
In 1921 Ireland was partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act and Northern Ireland was created. True False.
A ceasefire in 1921 led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty that ended British rule in most of Ireland and the Irish Free State was created as a self-governing Dominion in 1922
True False.
What options did the British Empire have for the criminals? To murder them To send them to Russia To send them to North America and later to Australia.
In 1901 the Commonwealth of Australia was founded, as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire True False.
What was the spark of WWI in 1914 that made Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia? The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Bosnian in Sarajevo The murder of Lady D.
What was the seed for WWII? The German unemployment that caused a sentiment of injustice The murder of the king of the British Empire.
Who advocated the responsibility of the white man in creating a single rich civilization through the Empire? Rudyard Kipling T. S. Eliot.
"Forsyte Saga" is comprised by nine traditional novels, wrote by... John Buchan John Galsworhty.
He wrote "The War of the Worlds" and was conservative: T. S. Eliot H. G. Wells.
Best known as the Queen of Crime... J. K. Rowling Agatha Christie.
The 19th century is defined by... Romanticism Modernism.
The most representative works of modernism were published in 1922 and were: Ulysses and The Waste Land. The Waste Land and The Thirty-Nine Steps.
In “The Waste Land”, T. S. Eliot expresses the rupture in the psychological state of humanity, with the rigid Victorian ideals and the trauma of WWI. True False.
These authors are part of The Lost Generation: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, J. Buchan Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound.
He wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1939: William Faulkner John Steinbeck.
These books weren't intended for children originally: Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland. Gulliver's Travles and Robinson Crusoe.
Which was the first book intended for children? Harry Potter and the Philosophal Stone Orbis sensualium pictus.
By the 17th century English had replaced Latin as the instruction language and the literature that was aimed for children was heavily influenced by Puritanism True False.
Name two books specifically written for children that appeared in the 18th century "A Token for Children" and "Ulysses" "A little book for little children" and "A description of three hundred animals".
Which is the name of the first collection of children's rhymes and nursery songs that appears in 1744? "Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song" by Mary Cooper The Lilliputian Magazine.
Which was the first book for children where enjoyment was more important? "A Little Pretty Pocket-book" The Lilliputian Magazine.
Authors of Romanticism are... Hemingway, Woolf and Lord Byron. Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth.
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