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Cultral Literacy Flashcards

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What is the 1001 nights?

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What is another name for the Arabian nights?

What is the 1001 nights

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What was for 1001 nights?

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How many days did the queen tell these tales to the king?

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Who was a magician?

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Who sold Aladdin the lamp?

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Who was the genie?

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What was brought forth when the lamp was rubbed?

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5
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Who was a poem and short story writer?

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Who was Eugenia W. Collier?

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6
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What was a power plant meltdown?

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What happened in chernobyl?

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When was 1909?

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When was Eudora Welty born?

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What was a set of dickens?

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Her mother ran into a burning house just to save what?

What was a set of dickens

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What was the monkey trial?

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What did they call johns trial?

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10
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What was for teaching evolution in violation of state law?

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Why was John scopes arrested?

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When is after the regular football season?

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When does the rose bowl take place?

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12
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Where is Pasadena California?

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Where does the rose bowl take place?

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When was after the civil war?

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When did sharecropping take place?

When was after the civil war

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14
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Where was the south?

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Where did it develop?

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What was the Dakota people?

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Sioux Is the common name for what people?

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Who was Bigfoot?

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What chief led the Indians to massacre the u.s. troops?

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17
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What are sit-ins?

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What is a form of nonviolent protest?

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18
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During the civil rights movement?

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When we’re sitins employed?

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19
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Who was a 20th century athlete?

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Who was Jim Thorpe?

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20
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What was the location of a serious nuclear power plant?

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What was the three mile island?

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21
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What was Pennsylvania?

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What state was it in?

22
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Where was somewhere in the soviet union in Ukraine?

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Where was Chernobyl?

23
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What was uncle Tom?

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What was a name applied to black people?

24
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What was uncle toms cabin?

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What was the name of the 19th century novel

25
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What was six?

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How old was JK Rowling when she wrote her first book

26
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What was the Harry Potter series?

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What books did she write?

27
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What was used by the New English?

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The term Yankee was originally used by the what?

28
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What is the United States?

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Now it is applied to everyone in the what?

29
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What is wiretapping?

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What is the use of any electronic device to eavesdrop on private calls?

30
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What is any electronic device?

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What devices can you use to wiretap?

31
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What is the Museum of Natural History?

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What is one of the museums of the Smithsonian Institute?

32
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Who is James smithsonian?

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Who is the institute named after?

33
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Who was Claude McKay?

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Who was the 11th child of a farming family?

34
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What was 22?

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How old was he when he wrote both of his poetry books?

35
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What was the civil rights movement?

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What was one of the things Julian bond participated in?

36
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Who was julian bond?

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Who faced jail for his convictions as a veteran?

37
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Who was Langston Hughes?

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Who was regarded as one of the Harlem reinesance once in the 1920s?

38
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What was a doorman?

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What was one of his jobs?

39
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Who was Paul Lawrence Dunbar?

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Who was born in Dayton?

40
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Who was William dean Howell?

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Who gave a full page review on Paul’s book in harpers weekly?

41
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What is the American system for distributing old age and disability pensions?

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What is the social security administration?

42
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What was 1935

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What year did it start?

43
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What is stud poker

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What Famous game did ace In the hole come from

44
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What is a hidden advantage?

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What does ace in the hole mean?

45
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What is something beyond human control?

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What does act of god mean?

46
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Who are Insurance company’s and lawyers

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What people frequently use the phrase?

47
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What is a sea bird?

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What is an albatross?

48
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What is an annoying burden?

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What does an albatross around my neck mean?

49
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What was native American

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What race was Jim Thorpe?

50
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What was marigolds?

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What was the name of eugenia w. colliers award winning short story?

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