Lesson 4.2.2.1

4.2.2.1 Context: Modern times, 1945 to the present day (key issues) Quiz: AQA English Literature, Unit 2

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Lesson 4.2.2.1, Context: Modern times, 1945 to the present day (key issues): 20 multiple choice questions for the AQA English Literature (7712), Unit 2: Texts in shared contexts, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which major global event in 1945 marks the start of the Modern Times literary period?

    • End of WW2
    • The Cold War
    • Treaty of Versailles
    • Fall of Berlin

  2. Name the international organisation established in October 1945 to maintain global peace and security.

    • The League of Nations
    • The United Nations
    • NATO
    • The European Union

  3. Which major global political conflict defined international relations from 1945 until 1989?

    • The Cold War
    • World War One
    • The Falklands War
    • The Vietnam War

  4. What new fear shaped the post-1945 world?

    • Famine across Europe
    • Nuclear war
    • Plague
    • Piracy at sea

  5. Which process saw many colonies gain independence after 1945?

    • Urbanisation
    • Enclosure
    • Decolonisation
    • Industrialisation

  6. In which year did India gain independence from Britain?

    • 1989
    • 1963
    • 1947
    • 1914

  7. What movement in the 1960s campaigned for equal pay and reproductive rights for women?

    • Temperance movement
    • Suffragette movement
    • Second-wave feminism
    • First-wave feminism

  8. When did the Berlin Wall go up?

    • 1945
    • 1961
    • 1975
    • 1989

  9. Which 1989 event symbolised the collapse of Soviet control across Eastern Europe?

    • The Berlin Wall
    • The Warsaw Pact
    • The Iron Curtain
    • The Marshall Plan

  10. Which ship arrived in Britain in 1948, bringing over 800 Caribbean immigrants?

    • HMT Empire Windrush
    • HMS Belfast
    • RMS Titanic
    • SS Great Britain

  11. Which key British institution providing free healthcare was founded in 1948?

    • The Welfare State
    • The NHS
    • The British Council
    • The BBC

  12. Which term describes the post-war growth of the welfare state in Britain?

    • Welfare state
    • Mercantilism
    • Feudalism
    • Laissez-faire

  13. Which American movement of the 1950s and 1960s campaigned against racial segregation laws?

    • Civil Rights Movement
    • Black Power Movement
    • Women's Suffrage Movement
    • Abolitionist Movement

  14. Whose refusal to yield a bus seat triggered the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott?

    • Harriet Tubman
    • Rosa Parks
    • Sojourner Truth
    • Coretta Scott King

  15. Which concept describes a society's increasing economic and cultural connection across the globe after 1980?

    • Mercantilism
    • Feudal obligation
    • Globalisation
    • Enclosure

  16. Which event in May 1979 made Margaret Thatcher the UK's first female Prime Minister?

    • A general election
    • A royal decree
    • A military coup
    • A miners' strike

  17. Which key contextual theme in post-1945 literature focuses on self-definition and culture?

    • Identity
    • Feudalism
    • Imperialism
    • Industrialisation

  18. Which 1962 international standoff brought the USA and USSR to the brink of nuclear war?

    • Suez Canal Crisis
    • Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Korean War
    • Berlin Blockade

  19. Which term describes a system of government where the state exercises complete, tyrannical control?

    • Oligarchy
    • Totalitarianism
    • Democracy
    • Anarchism

  20. What type of context helps readers analyse post-1945 texts' concerns with power and social change?

    • Historical context
    • Phonological context
    • Biographical context
    • Literary genre

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