VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY-HO CHI MINH CITY Student’s full name: NGUYEN THI MY HANH............

UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

FACULTY OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS & LITERATURE Student ID: ..........1967010034..................................
DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH Class: .19A1........................................................................
CULTURE AND LITERATURE Instructor: ..TRAN THI NGUYET THANH................

MIDTERM TEST – ANSWER SHEET

Course: INTRODUCTION TO
BRITISH AND AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Time Allotted: 60 minutes Test Date: 17/06/2021

Department Chair Proctor 1 Examiner 1 Exam Score Total

(100%) Score

Ms. Văn Thị Nhã Proctor 2 Examiner 2

Trúc

Note: No materials or dictionaries are allowed.

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BRITISH CULTURE & SOCIETY

Part I: Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. Write the letter of
your choice (A, B, C, or D) in the ANSWER BOX. (10pts)

ANSWER BOX:
1. D 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. D 8. D 9. A 10. D

1. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of London?

A. Home for headquarters of the C. Home for headquarters of
monarch Parliament
B. Home for headquarters of major D. Home for headquarters of Local
legal institutions authorities
2. What is the name of Irish national anthem?
A. God save the Queen C. Flower of Scotland
B. Land of my fathers D. The soldiers’ song
3. Which of the following best describes Birmingham?
A. Most densely populated in the UK C. The original name for Britain.
B. Britain’s second largest city D. The female embodiment of Britain
4. Which is the largest national park in England ?
A. Cairngorms National Park C. The Lake District National Park
B. Loch Lomond National Park D. The Trossachs National Park
5. There are British people whose parents first came to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s
from _________?

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 A. The Caribbean & India C. Other places
B. Pakistan & Hong Kong D. All of the above
6. Who is the new Prime Minister of the UK (after David Cameron resigned due to
Brexit referendum)?
A. Margaret Thatcher C. Frances O’Grady
B. Theresa May D. William Lamb

7. In which year did the UK officially become the member of EU?

A. 1970 C. 1972
B. 1971 D. 1973
8. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is an organization for __________.
A. the employers
B. the employees
C. the unemployed
D. agricultural employers & independent farmers
9. What were the names of 4 universities in Scotland?
A. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St. Andrews
B. Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Leeds
C. Manchester, Southampton, London, Durham
D. Warwick, Leeds, Birmingham, Oxford
10. What influences the weather of Britain?
A. Atlantic Ocean C. Gulf Stream
B. Northern latitude D. All of the above

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Part II: True or False: Write T if the statements about the UK are true and F if they are false.
Write your answers in the ANSWER BOX below. (10pts)

ANSWER BOX:
11. T 12.T 13. F 14. F 15. T 16. T 17. F 18. T 19. T 20. T

11. Britannia is the name of the female embodiment of Britain.

12. Majority of Londoners live in suburbs and millions travel to the center to work.
13. Canterbury Cathedral, which is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site is in Wales.
14. The moor is a broad area of open land that is good for farming.
15. There are many symbols of Scottishness which are well-known throughout Britain.
16. In Northern Ireland, ethnicity, family, politics and religion are all inter-related and social class has a
minor role in establishing identity.
17. RSPCA stands for Royal Society for the Prediction of Cruelty to Animals.
18. The English, Welsh and Northern Irish system has emphasized depth of education.
19. Constitutional monarchy is a country whose government is controlled by a king/queen who accepts
the advice of a parliament.
20. Scotland has its own legal system, seperated from the rest of the UK.

Part III: Matching: Match the subjects in the left column with its correct information in the right
column. Write the letter (A-H) in the ANSWER BOX below. (There are some extra answers.).
(10pt)

ANSWER BOX:
21. D 22. E 23. B 24. G 25. A

21. He was Duke of Normandy (France), who invaded A. The Great Fire of London
England in 1066.
22. The seat of the two chambers of the law-making body B. Loch Ness

23. It is a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish C. King Henry VIII

Highlands.
24. It is the voice of Britain at work. D. William or William the Conqueror

25. It destroyed many buildings and the bubonic plague as E. The Houses of Parliament
well.
F. The State Opening of Parliament

G. Trades Union Congress

H. Confederation of British Industry

PART IV. Gap filling: Fill in the blanks with suitable words/phrases. Write your answers in the
ANSWER BOX below. (10pts)

ANSWER BOX:
26. Kilt 27. Assent 28. Department of 29.The 30. Wales
 education employers

31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

26. The _____________ , a skirt with a tartan pattern worn by men, is a very well-known symbol of
Scottishness.
27. When the parliament agrees on a bill, the bill must get a royal ________ before it actually
becomes law.
28. The function of British ___________ is setting overall learning objectives.
29. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is an organization for __________.
30. Eisteddfod is a national festival of Celtic literature, music and performance in _______.

PART V. Open questions (20pts)

Briefly answer the following questions. Write your answers on the blank lines provided.

1. Describe the roles of the British Prime Minister.

The most important person in the British political system is the Prime Minister.
The British Prime Minister is the member of either the Commons or Lords and the leader of a great
political party. The British Prime Minister is inherited a majority in the Commons.
The official residence of the Prime Minister is at Number 10 Downing Street. The British Prime Minister
has a house in the country called Chequers.

The Prime Minister simply choses the ministers who run Government departments and chairs the Cabinet
- the collection of the most senior of those Ministers. In practice, however, the Prime Minister is a very
powerful figure and increasingly has been behaving much like a president in other political systems,
especially in the area of foreign policy.

2. Discuss the five stages of education in the UK.

Today British education is run by government especially Local Education Authority. There are five stages
of education in the UK. They are Early years, Primary, Secondary, Further Education and Higher
Education.
Early Years Education: all three and four year olds are entitled to 15
hours of free nursery education for 38 weeks of the year. Early Years education
takes place in a variety of settings including state nursery schools, nursery classes
and reception classes within primary schools, as well as settings outside the state
sector such as voluntary pre-schools, privately run nurseries or childminders.
Primary: The primary stage covers three age ranges: nursery (under 5), infant (5 to 7 or 8) (Key Stage 1)
and junior (up to 11 or 12) (Key Stage 2) but in Scotland and Northern Ireland there is generally no
distinction between infant and junior schools.
Secondary: In England, public provision of secondary education in an area may consist of a combination
of different types of school, the pattern reflecting historical circumstance and the policy adopted by the
local authority. Comprehensive schools largely admit pupils without reference to ability or aptitude and
cater for all the children in a neighbourhood, but in some areas they co-exist with other types of schools,
for example grammar schools.
Further education may be used in a general sense to cover all non-advanced courses taken after the period
of compulsory education. It is post-compulsory education (in addition to that received at secondary
school), that is distinct from the education offered in universities (higher education). It may be at any
level from basic skills training to higher vocational education such as City and Guilds or Foundation
Degree.
Higher education is defined as courses that are of a standard that is higher than GCE A level, the Higher
Grade of the SCE/National Qualification, GNVQ/NVQ level 3 or the Edexcel (formerly BTEC) or SQA
National Certificate/Diploma.