Homework for the Week of January 11

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1. Read the first three chapters of No Summit Out of Sight. Write a paragraph responding to what you read using the response sheet given on Jan. 8.



3. Read chapters 25-26 of Story of the World Vol. 3.

4. Answer these questions:

Chapter 25 SotW


The Storming of the Bastille


  1. In the years after the French helped the Americans in the American revolution, what did the French people come to think about their king?
  2. How had Louis XIV and Louis XV made themselves unpopular with the poor people of France?
  3. The French people were divided into three estates. Which people belonged to each of the estates?
  4. To which estate did most people of France belong?
  5. What was the greatest difference between the people of the Second and Third Estate?
  6. Why was Louis XVI’s wife Marie-Antoinette unpopular?
  7. When Louis XVI tried to make the noblemen of the Second Estate pay taxes, what did they announce?
  8. What is one way in which members of the Third Estate were made to feel unimportant at this meeting?
  9. Could the Third Estate outvote the First and Second Estates?
  10. What did the Third Estate rename the meeting?
  11. When the noblemen told Louis XVI that the Third Estate was trying to convince the First Estate to join them, what did Louis XVI do? 
  12. What was the Tennis Court Oath?
  13. Why did Louis XVI fear that his soldiers would not fire on the rebellious people of Paris?
  14. Where did the people of Paris go to find gunpowder
  15. What was the date of the Fall of the Bastille?
  16. What kind of government did the National Assembly plan to institute?


The Reign of Terror



  1. What people wanted to put Louis XVI back on the throne?
  2. Who was the leader of the Third Estate?
  3. What did the Assembly decide to do with the First and Second Estates?
  4. What title did every Frenchman receive?
  5. When the king and his family tried to escape, what happened?
  6. After a few years, hatred for the king was waning. What happened that renewed the people’s hatred of him?
  7. What type of government did France finally decide to adopt?
  8. After the French decided to be a republic, they renamed the National Assembly. What was the new name of the governing body in France?
  9. What did Louis XVI urge his son as he was led to the guillotine?
  10. Even after Louis XVI was beheaded, things did not immediately go well for the Republic. What committee did the National Convention form, and who was its leader?
  11. What did Robespierre do with anyone he thought disloyal?
  12. Why did the National Convention begin to worry about Robespierre?
  13. How did Robespierre die?


Chapter 26

Princess Catherine Comes to Russia

  1. According to the empress Catherine the Great, where did kings get the power to rule?
  2. From what two countries did Catherine’s parents come?
  3. Why did the Empress Elizabeth invite Catherine to Russia?
  4. Catherine’s parents had different reactions to the prospect of her becoming a queen. Which parent was excited for Catherine?
  5. What promise did Catherine’s father ask her to make?
  6. What did Catherine remember baobab her first meeting with Peter Ulrich?
  7. Where did Catherine go when she was to meet Peter Ulrich again?
  8. Did Catherine like Peter more or less when she got to know him better?
  9. What did Catherine dislike about Peter?
  10. What was one of Empress Elizabeth’s qualities that made Catherine afraid to tell her she didn’t want to marry Peter?
  11. What happened to Peter Ulrich four months after his engagement that made him barely recognizable to Catherine?
  12. What subjects did Catherine read about during the nine lonely ears following her marriage ceremony?
  13. What was happening to Peter during this time? How was his behavior changing?
  14. What happened to Catherine’s baby right after he was born?
  15. When Catherine recovered, what did she begin to plan to do?
  16. Did Catherine lead a revolt as soon as the empress died?


Catherine the Great

  1. After Empress Elizabeth’s death, what did Catherine do to show the people of Russia how devour she was?
  2. While Catherine mourned Elizabeth’s death, what did Peter do?
  3. Peter made several changes in the army. What were two?
  4. What did the army think of Peter’s plans?
  5. When Peter needed more money for the royal treasury, where did he decide he would get that money?
  6. Did most of the army support Catherine or Peter?
  7. What other Important Russian official supported Catherine?
  8. Catherine did not let Peter go live in Prussia. What was she afraid of?
  9. How did Peter supposedly die? What was the problem with that story?
  10. What were two of the Western ideas that Catherine brought to Russia?
  11. What did equality mean to Catherine?
  12. By the end of Catherine’s reign, who had more power than when she began her reign? Who had less power?

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