Who was selected as the first president of the United States in 1787 after becoming a national hero during the American Revolutionary War or War of Independence? Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson George Washington Abraham Lincoln. The first American literature work is thought to have been created by… John Dickinson Thomas Paine John Smith Benjamin Franklin. Which of the following features would you use to teach your students the Gothic literature? Edgar Allan Poe / detective stories / tortured characters. Industrialisation / Stiff upper lip / Charles Dickens. Beowulf / Old English / King Alfred. Republic / Puritanism / Enlightenment. You are introducing Women's rights movements in your 1st of Bachillerato English class through the figure of Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the British Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). When you are referring to the members of this organization, what term are you using? Feminettes Minorettes Suffragettes Majorettes. Vanessa and her class are reading some excerpts from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. The novel portrays a period of British history that meant an important industrial, political, scientific, and military in the country and it is identified with the figure of a prominent monarch. What part of English history are Vanessa´s students discovering? The Georgian era The Edwardian era The Victorian era The Elizabethan era. Natalia has created a learning situation around fantasy books for children for her 2 of ESO English students. When she is focusing on the conflict of mature children who have to face incompetent or cruel adults, what are the reference author and book she is using? Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine´s Peculiar Children series Neil Gaiman´s Stardust Roald Dahl´s Matilda Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The question of physical power and moral righteousness in social life is dealt in… The Spectator Gulliver´s Travels Tom Jones The Rape of the Lock. Which author contributed to the development of the novel in English in the twentieth century with new techniques of narrative experimentation and, at the same time, depicts the lives of ordinary people with realism? James Joyce P.G. Wodehouse Agatha Christie John Buchan. In which work, the author John Steinbeck depicts the Depression era in America? The Grapes of Wrath. The Great Gatsby. The Wasteland. The Sun Also Rises. English children´s literature has been presented as an idealized vision of childhood, however, in the 1950s,……….. presents the concept of the child´s dissatisfaction and aloofness in a chaotic world governed by adults. Enid Blyton C.S. Lewis J.K.Rowling J.D. Salinger. What English journalist, poet, and novelist −also known for writing The Jungle Book (1894)− was the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907? Lord Tennyson John Keats Joseph Rudyard Kipling Jane Austen. Many writers in the first decades of the 20th century continued the traditions of the 19th century and their works do not represent a departure from the main themes and forms of that tradition. What were the main themes for the major novelists of the period of 1900-1930 in English literature? Loneliness and isolation Cultural crisis and social dislocation Individuality and communion with the collective All of the above. Although slavery was officially abolished in the United States after the Civil War, discrimination against black people continued, especially in the South. There still existed state and local regulations that legalized racial segregation. What was the name given to these laws? Segregation Laws Jim Crow Laws Negro Laws Post Civil War Laws. Complete the sentence with the correct option:
In 'Things Fall Apart', __________ narrates the devastation of Nigeria by British colonists and the consequent effects on this country's identity and culture. Edward Said Jean Rhys Ngugi wa Thiong'o Chinua Achebe. Many Irish people, at least a million, had to leave Ireland between 1841-1920. Most of them settled in the United States. What disaster was the origin of this large migration? The Great Depression The Great Famine The Great Migration The Great Disaster.
