British modern and contemporary lit

Britain would become embroiled in wars, experience economic depression, and face the end of its once-massive _____.

• power

• country

• empire

Austria declared war on Serbia, and like a line of dominoes, ______ fell into place: Austria and Germany on one side; Russia, France, and Britain on the other.

• alliances

• enemies

• friendships

War-torn European nations turned to the United States for loans, but in 1929 the United States stock market ______, causing a worldwide depression.

• improved

• crashed

• declined

Determined to provide at least the basic necessities, the government transformed Britain with a new national healthcare system and _____ education.

• public

• private

• alternative

Britain granted ever-greater degrees of self-determination to its colonies, eventually making some of these lands partners in the British Commonwealth of Nations rather than continuing to treat them as ______.

• independent countries

• colonies

• possessions

In the arts, _____was a way of trying to make sense of this new, fragmented world.

• modernism

• neologism

• retro

New narrative styles rejected ______ linear plot and character development, and instead placed the reader inside the character’s mind.

• innovative

• traditional

• standard