Problem: The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mulhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on 4 January 1798. Alsace is frequently mentioned with and as part of Lorraine and the former duchy of Lorraine, since it was a vital part of the duchy, and later because German possession as the imperial province (Alsace-Lorraine, 18711918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries; France and Germany exchanged control of parts of Lorraine (including Alsace) four times in 75 years.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts. The part known as Lotharingia, or Lorraine, was given to Lothar's son. The rest was shared between Lothar's brothers Charles the Bald (ruler of the West Frankish realm) and Louis the German (ruler of the East Frankish realm). The Kingdom of Lotharingia was short-lived, however, becoming the stem duchy of Lorraine in Eastern Francia after the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia.
1. What is the city of discussion?
2. Why did it become a Germanic territory?
3. When was their claim protested?
4. What happened in 1798?
5. Why?
6. Was control shifted between Germany and Spain?
7. Who then?
8. How many times?
9. Within 75 years?
10. What type of culture were the people?
Answer: 1. Alsace
2. decline of the Roman Empire
3. the 19th and 20th centuries
4. Mulhouse became a part of Alsace
5. a vote by its citizens
6. No
7. France and Germany
8. four
9. Yes
10. agricultural

Problem: The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson, UVA is known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code, and secret societies.

UNESCO designated UVA as America's first and only collegiate World Heritage Site in 1987, an honor shared with nearby Monticello. The university was established in 1819, and its original governing Board of Visitors included Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Monroe was the sitting President of the United States at the time of its foundation. Former Presidents Jefferson and Madison were UVA's first two rectors and Jefferson conceived and designed the original courses of study and Academical Village.

UVA was the first elected member of the Association of American Universities from the South, in 1904, and remains the only member institution in Virginia. UVA is classified as a "Research University with Very High Research" by the Carnegie Foundation, and is considered Virginia's flagship university by the College Board. In 2015 the journal "Science" honored UVA faculty for discovering two of its top 10 annual scientific breakthroughs; from the fields of Medicine and Psychology. UVA faculty and alumni have founded a large number of companies, such as Reddit, that produce more than $1.6 trillion in annual revenue, equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world.
1. WHat does UVA stand for?
2. WHen did it start?
3. By who?
4. Was anyone else involved with it?
5. WHat are they famous for?
6. Is the school in any important organizations?
7. Is it unique in any way in that?
8. WHen did it join that Assocation?
9. How did it get in?
10. Is it known for any particular academic disiplines?
11. WHat publication featured the school?
12. When?
13. Why?
14. Besides academics is it known for anything else?
15. Are the schools students and teachers successful people?
16. How so?
17. DO you have an example?
18. How much do these companies make a year?
19. How does that rank in the global economy?
20. Is the school a private one?
Answer: 1. The University of Virginia
2. 1819
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison, and James Monroe
5. Monroe was the sitting President of the United States
6. Association of American Universities
7. it's the first and only collegiate World Heritage Site
8. 1904
9. it was elected
10. Medicine and Psychology
11. "Science"
12. 2015
13. for discovering two of its top 10 annual scientific breakthroughs
14. historic foundations, student-run honor code, and secret societies.
15. Yes
16. they have founded a large number of companies
17. Reddit
18. $1.6 trillion
19. 10th-largest
20. No

Problem: CHAPTER XXII. A FATAL SPARK.

And so it chanced; which in those dark And fireless halls was quite amazing, Did we not know how small a spark Can set the torch of love ablazing. T. MOORE.

Aurelia rode home in perplexity, much afraid of the combustibles at her girdle, and hating the task her sister had forced on her. She felt as if her heedless avowals had been high treason to her husband; and yet Harriet was her elder, and those assurances that as a true woman she was bound to clear up the mystery, made her cheeks burn with shame, and her heart thrill with the determination to vindicate her husband, while the longing to know the face of one who so loved her was freshly awakened.

She was strongly inclined to tell him all, indeed she knew herself well enough to be aware that half a dozen searching questions would draw out the whole confession of her own communication and Harriet's unworthy suspicions; and humiliating as this would be, she longed for the opportunity. Here, however, she was checked in her meditations by a stumble of her horse, which proved to have lost a shoe. It was necessary to leave the short cut, and make for the nearest forge, and when the mischief was repaired, to ride home by the high road.

She thus came home much later than had been expected; Jumbo, Molly, and the little girls were all watching for her, and greeted her eagerly. The supper was already on the table for her, and she had only just given Fay and Letty the cakes and comfits she had bought at Brentford for them when Jumbo brought the message that his master hoped that madam, if not too much fatigued, would come to him as soon as her supper was finished.
1. Who was suspicious?
2. Did she have cause?
3. Who was she relatedto?
4. How?
5. Who was older?
6. Was Aurelia married?
7. Did she hide something in her underwear?
8. What?
9. Did someone make her do it?
10. Who?
11. Did she make it back to her house on time?
12. Was anybody waiting?
13. Who?
14. Were they sad to see her?
15. Was dinner ready?
16. Where were the pastries from?
17. Who got to eat them?
18. Who was asked to meet the head of household after eating?
19. What did the equine lose?
20. Who is quoted?
Answer:
1. Harriet'
2. Aurelia didn't think so
3. harriet
4. sisters
5. Harriet
6. yes
7. yes
8. combustibles
9. yes
10. Her sister
11. no
12. yes
13. Jumbo, Molly, and the little girls were all watching for her,
14. no
15. yes
16. Brentford
17. Fay and Letty
18. Aurelia
19. a shoe.
20. . T. MOORE.