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И.о. заведующего кафедрой _______________А. В. Прадун

Вопросы к экзамену по дисциплине «Страноведение»

Специальность 1-02 03 07-01 Иностранный язык (английский). Белорусский язык и литература

Курс – II

Семестр – IV

1. Describe the UK in general: what comes to mind first?

• constitutional monarchy

• United Kingdom, the UK, and Britain

• England

• Scotland

• Wales

• Northern Ireland

• the Gulf Stream

• London

2. Describe the USA in general: what comes to mind first?

• the United States

• Alaska, Texas, California.

• Rhode Island, Wyoming

• the Mississippi

• the Great Lakes

• The Niagara Falls

• Yellowstone National Park

• Mesa Verde National Park,

• Mount Rushmore

• New York, Washington D.C

• the Capitol

• the Lincoln Memorial

• the Washington Memorial

• the White House

• the Statue of Liberty

3. Speak about British contribution to civilization.

• colonial empire

• Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh

• Captain James Cook

• David Livingstone

• Robert Falcon Scott

• the Industrial revolution

• James Watt and George Stephenson

• Isambard Brunel

• Francis Bacon

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Edward Jenner

• Michael Faraday

• Charles Darwin

• Alexander Fleming

• Ernest Rutherford

• Ian Wilmut

4. Speak about American contribution to civilization.

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• the Wright brothers'

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• Microsoft Corporation

• July 20, 1969

• the Space Shuttle

5. Speak about British contribution to culture.

• William Shakespeare

• Charles Dickens

• Joanne Rowling

• Sir Edward Elgar

• Arthur Lloyd Weber

• John Lennon.

• British architecture

• the Tower of London

• Sir Christopher Wren

• the middle class

• clubs and hobby groups

• sports

• the BBC radio and television

• Charles Babbage

• Tim Berners-Lee

6. Speak about American contribution to culture.

• "patchwork quilt"

• Fennimore Cooper

• Herman Melville

• Mark Twain

• Ernest Hemingway

• landscape painting

• Louis Armstrong

• Duke Ellington

• George Gershwin and Aaron Copland

• Elvis Presley

• Isadora Duncan

• George Balanchine

• the American Dream

• Walt Disney

7. Describe English, one of the world languages.

• a world language

• Received Standard English

• American English

• Pidgin English

• Estuary English

• Cockney pronunciation.

• Borrowings

8. Describe America as a "melting pot of nations".

• Native Americans

• Reservations

• immi­gration

• Afro-American

• Ebonics

• American English

• Noah Webster

• "political correctness"

9. Give a talk on the early history of Britain.

• Gaelic

• Brythons

• the Belgic tribes

• Stonehenge

• Julius Caesar

• Claudius

• Boadicea

• the Hadrian’s Wall

• Albion

• Londinium

• the Jutes, the Angles and the Saxons

10. Give an outline of the Anglo-Saxon period.

• Wessex

• “England”.

• Court of King Arthur

• Geoffrey of Monmouth

• Sir Thomas Malory

• Danes

• Alfred

• Bat­tle of Maldon

• the Catholic Church

• St Patrick’s Day, 17 March.

• Саnterbury

• Hastings, October 14, 1066

11. Speak about the formative centuries in British history, 1066 – 1500s.

• William the Conqueror

• the Doomsday Book

• Richard the Lionhearted

• Runnymede

• Magna Carta or Great Charter

• Parliament

• William Wallace

• Robert the Bruce

• the Black Death

• Wat Tyler

• the War of the Roses

• Richard III

• William Caxton

12. Describe the events of the British Renaissance.

• Henry VIII

• Anne Boleyn

• the Act of Supremacy

• Sir Thomas More

• Utopia

• Reformation Protestantism

• 'Bloody Mary'

• Mary, Queen of Scots

• the Elizabethan era

• Shakespeare

• Francis Bacon

• Edmund Spenser

• Christopher Marlow

• the Spanish Armada

13. Speak about the events of the English Puritan Revolution.

• William Tyndale

• The King James Version of the Bible

• the Gunpowder Plot

• Guy Fawkes Night, November 5

• the Petition of Rights

• Puritans

• Cavaliers

• Roundheads

• January 30, 1649

• Oliver Cromwell

• the Commonwealth

• the Instrument of Government

14. Give a talk on the Restoration period in Britain.

• the Restoration

• the Great Plague

• the Great Fire of London

• the Tories and the Whigs

• the Revolution of 1688

• colonizing foreign lands

• British colonial empire

15. Give a talk on the early history of America's discovery.

• the Vinland Map

• the New World

• October 12, 1492

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Conquistadors

• Montezuma

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Robert La Salle

• Louisiana

• Henry Hudson, Peter Minuit

• Manhattan Island

• Roanoke Colony

• Jamestown

• Captain John Smith, Pocahontas

16. Give an outline of the beginning of Puritan America.

• Puritans

• the Pilgrims

• the Mayflower

• the Massachusetts Bay Company

• Thanksgiving Day.

• congregationalism

• John Harvard

• witchcraft

• The Scarlet Letter

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Boston

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

17. Speak about the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

• the Enlightenment

• Isaac Newton

• Jonathan Swift

• Daniel Defoe

• Samuel Johnson

• Sir Christopher Wren

• William Blake

• the Industrial Revolution

• the workshop of the world

• the textile industry

• James Watt,

• George Stephenson

• Isambard Brunel

• Battle of Trafalgar

• the Great Eastern

18. Speak about the Enlightenment in America.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Poor Richard’s Almanac

• the Declaration of Independence

• Autobiography

• Thomas Jefferson

• Monticello

• March 4, 1801

• the Louisiana Purchase

19. Give a talk on the American Revolution and the War of Independence.

• the Boston Tea Party

• the Continental Army

• the War of Independence

• Thomas Paine

• Common Sense

• July 4, 1776.

• "all men are created equal"

• Saratoga and Yorktown

• George Washington

• the Constitution of the United States

• a system of checks and balances

• the Bill of Rights

• the House of Representatives

• the Senate

20. Describe the history of the USA in the XIX century

• the Dis­trict of Columbia

• Moby Dick

• the White House

• Fort McHenry

• “The Star-Spangled Banner”

• Samuel Colt

• Isaac Singer

• Samuel Morse

• Robert Fulton

• the Erie Canal

• intensive immigration

• the Californian gold rush

21. Give a talk on the Victorian Age in Britain.

• Queen Victoria

• the Great Exhibition

• Charles Dickens

• Rudyard Kipling

• Luddites

• the Chartist movement

• the woman-suffrage movement

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Robert Owen

• the Salvation Army

• Florence Nightingale

• the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

• William Morris

• the Crystal Palace

22. Dwell on the Civil War in the USA (1861—1865).

• the abolitionist movement

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• John Brown

• the Battle Hymn of the Republic

• Abraham Lincoln

• a “house divided”

• the Con­federate States of America

• Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861

• Gettysburg

• The Gettysburg Address

• E Pluribus Unum

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• Abraham Lincoln

23. Describe the period of Recon­struction in the USA.

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• the Ku Klux Klan

• Promontory Summit, Utah (1869)

• Wounded Knee Creek

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Ford

• Wilbur and Orville Wright

• December 17, 1903

• Haymarket Square Riot

• Joe Hill

24. Give an outline of British geography and economy.

• the British Isles

• the English Channel

• the Pen­nine Mountains

• the Cumbrian Mountains

• the Lake District

• the Highlands

• Ben Nevis

• Loch Lomond

• the Severn

• the Thames

• the Gulf Stream

• the rain-shadow

• mineral resources

25. Give an outline of US geography and economy.

• New England

• the Mid-Atlantic region

• the South

• the Midwest

• the Great Lakes

• the prairie area

• the Great Plains

• the Southwest area

• the Rocky Mountain Region

• the Pacific Northwest and Alaska region

• California and Hawaii

• chemicals and industrial machinery

• electronic equipment

• processed foods

• the Silicon Valley of California

26. Give a talk on the First World War and the 1920s in Britain.

• First World War

• the Treaty of Versailles

• the Easter Rebellion

• the Irish Republic

• the League of Nations

• the British Commonwealth of Nations

• Alexander Fleming

• John L. Baird

27. Give a talk on the First World War and the 1920s in the USA.

• The Lusitania

• the "lost generation"

• Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner

• the Nobel Prize for literature

• the Roaring Twenties

• Jazz music

• The Great Gatsby

• Hollywood

• Charlie Chaplin

• Mary Pickford

• The Jazz Singer

28. Describe World War II and the events after it in British history.

• September 1, 1939

• Sir Winston Churchill

• the Blitz

• D-Day

• the United Nations Organization

• Mohandas Gandhi

• the Suez Canal

• Queen Elizabeth II

• Mary Quant

• the Beatles

• the European Union

29. Describe the Great Depression and World War II in American history.

• October 29, 1929

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• the New Deal

• September 1, 1939

• December 7, 1941

• Pearl Harbor

• D-Day, June 6_, 1944

• Nagasaki, August 6, 1945

30. Speak about the US role in international politics in the 1950s – 1960s.

• the Marshall plan

• the United Nations

• the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• the Cold War

• the Iron Curtain

• the Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Wall

• the NATO

• the Warsaw Pact

• the Korean War

• Joseph McCarthy

• the Cuban missile crisis

31. Describe the events in the US domestic life in the 1950s.

• Baby and Child Care

• the "baby boom"

• Jonas Salk, April 12, 1955

• Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.

• The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)

• the civil rights movement

• Jim Crow signs

• the Little Rock Nine

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• “I Have a Dream”

• John F. Kennedy

32. Give an outline of US history in the 1960s –2000s.

• Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961

• the Vietnam War

• The Quiet American (1954)

• "All we are saying is give peace a chance"

• apolitical counterculture

• the Woodstock Festival

• the Moon landing

• “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

• a joint Soviet-American space mission

• April 12, 1981

• the Challenger

• The Gulf War, the Yugoslav Wars

• September 11, 2001

• the War on Terrorism