Q: Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland and the second largest city of Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship ("province") with a population of 349,103 (March 2011). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River, and is located approximately to the southeast of Warsaw by road.

One of the events that greatly contributed to the city's development was the Polish-Lithuanian Union of Krewo in 1385. Lublin thrived as a centre of trade and commerce due to its strategic location on the route between Vilnius and Krakow; the inhabitants also had the privilege of free trade in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Lublin Parliament session of 1569 led to the creation of a real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, thus creating the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Lublin also witnessed the early stages of Reformation in the 16th century. A Calvinist congregation was founded and certain groups of radical Arians also appeared in the city, making it an important global centre of Arianism. At the turn of the centuries, Lublin was also recognized for hosting a number of outstanding poets, writers and historians of the epoch.

Answer the following questions:
1. Which city is the subject of the article?
2. What country is it in?
3. How big is it, in terms of rankings?
4. What city is it near?
5. What is it the capital of?
6. When was that figure collected?
7. On what date, was the population of the city estimated?
8. What was one event that made a large contribution to its development?
9. When did that happen?
10. Did the city do well as a trading hub?
11. Why?
12. What other advantage did its residents enjoy?
13. What parliamentary event happened there?
14. Which countries did that unite?
15. What entity did that unification create?
16. What religious event was the region witness to?
17. What other religion formed a branch there?
18. What other movement was it of importance to?
A: 1. Lublin
2. Poland
3. largest Polish city east of the Vistula River
4. Warsaw
5. Lublin Voivodeship
6. unknown
7. March 2011
8. Polish-Lithuanian Union of Krewo
9. 1385
10. yes
11. its strategic location
12. free trade
13. Parliament session of 1569
14. Crown of the Kingdom and the Grand Duchy
15. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
16. Reformation
17. A Calvinist congregation
18. Arianism.
Q: Chapter 6

A Duel

D'Arnot was asleep when Tarzan entered their apartments after leaving Rokoff's. Tarzan did not disturb him, but the following morning he narrated the happenings of the previous evening, omitting not a single detail.

"What a fool I have been," he concluded. "De Coude and his wife were both my friends. How have I returned their friendship? Barely did I escape murdering the count. I have cast a stigma on the name of a good woman. It is very probable that I have broken up a happy home."

"Do you love Olga de Coude?" asked D'Arnot.

"Were I not positive that she does not love me I could not answer your question, Paul; but without disloyalty to her I tell you that I do not love her, nor does she love me. For an instant we were the victims of a sudden madness--it was not love--and it would have left us, unharmed, as suddenly as it had come upon us even though De Coude had not returned. As you know, I have had little experience of women. Olga de Coude is very beautiful; that, and the dim light and the seductive surroundings, and the appeal of the defenseless for protection, might have been resisted by a more civilized man, but my civilization is not even skin deep--it does not go deeper than my clothes.

"Paris is no place for me. I will but continue to stumble into more and more serious pitfalls. The man-made restrictions are irksome. I feel always that I am a prisoner. I cannot endure it, my friend, and so I think that I shall go back to my own jungle, and lead the life that God intended that I should lead when He put me there."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was sleeping?
2. Who came in?
3. Did he wake him up?
4. Where had he come from?
5. Does he believe the city is a good space for him?
6. How does he feel about the things made by men there?
7. Does he feel free?
8. What's he going to do about it?
9. Who does he believe wants this of him?
10. When does he tell his story?
11. Was he vague or detailed?
12. Did he betray anyone?
13. Who?
14. Had they been close?
15. Did he soil her good name?
16. Did he say it was love or impulse that caused it?
17. How much is he familiar with females?
18. Did he find her attractive?
19. What was the lighting like when it happened?
20. How civil does he consider himself?
A: 1. D'Arnot was
2. Tarzan
3. No
4. Rokoff's
5. No
6. restrictions are irksome
7. No
8. go back to his own jungle
9. God
10. the following morning
11. Detailed
12. Yes
13. De Coude and his wife
14. Yes
15. Yes
16. a sudden madness
17. had little experience
18. Olga de Coude is very beautiful
19. dim
20. His civilization is not even skin deep
Q: Cologne is the largest city in the German federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-largest city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich). It is located within the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, one of the major European metropolitan areas, and with more than ten million inhabitants, the largest in Germany. Cologne is about 45km southwest of North Rhine-Westphalia's capital of Dusseldorf and 25km northwest of Bonn.

Cologne is located on both sides of the Rhine, near Germany's borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. The city's famous Cologne Cathedral ("Kolner Dom") is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. The University of Cologne ("Universitat zu Koln") is one of Europe's oldest and largest universities.

Cologne was founded and established in Ubii territory in the 1st century AD as the Roman "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", from which it gets its name. "Cologne", the French version of the city's name, has become standard in English as well. The city functioned as the capital of the Roman province of "Germania Inferior" and as the headquarters of the Roman military in the region until occupied by the Franks in 462. During the Middle Ages it flourished on one of the most important major trade routes between east and west in Europe. Cologne was one of the leading members of the Hanseatic League and one of the largest cities north of the Alps in medieval and Renaissance times. Prior to World War II the city had undergone several occupations by the French and also by the British (19181926). Cologne was one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany during World War II, with the Royal Air Force (RAF) dropping of bombs on the city. The bombing reduced the population by 95%, mainly due to evacuation, and destroyed almost the entire city. With the intention of restoring as many historic buildings as possible, the successful postwar rebuilding has resulted in a very mixed and unique cityscape.

Answer the following questions:
1. What does RAF stand for?
2. In WW II, what was one of the most heavily bombed places in Germany?
3. Which region is it located in?
4. How many people does it have?
5. When was it founded?
6. In which territory?
7. What was the Roman name for it?
8. What is the French name for it?
9. What province was it the capital of?
10. And who was headquartered there?
11. What happened in 462?
12. What is the fourth-largest city in Germany?
13. What river is it located on both sides of?
14. What does it have that's the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne?
15. Was the University of Cologne built recently?
16. What is the German name for The University of Cologne?
17. What was Cologne one of the leading members of?
18. Before World War II, who was it occupied by?
19. And who else?
A:
1. Royal Air Force
2. Cologne
3. North Rhine-Westphalia
4. more than ten million
5. in the 1st century AD
6. Ubii
7. Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
8. Cologne
9. Germania Inferior
10. the Roman military
11. it was occupied by the Franks
12. Cologne
13. the Rhine
14. the Cologne Cathedral
15. no
16. Universitat zu Koln
17. the Hanseatic League
18. the French
19. the British