Q: Huguenot numbers peaked near an estimated two million by 1562, concentrated mainly in the southern and central parts of France, about one-eighth the number of French Catholics. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew, in spite of increasingly liberal political concessions and edicts of toleration from the French crown. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. The wars finally ended with the granting of the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy.

A term used originally in derision, Huguenot has unclear origins. Various hypotheses have been promoted. The nickname may have been a combined reference to the Swiss politician Besancon Hugues (died 1532) and the religiously conflicted nature of Swiss republicanism in his time, using a clever derogatory pun on the name Hugues by way of the Dutch word Huisgenoten (literally housemates), referring to the connotations of a somewhat related word in German Eidgenosse (Confederates as in "a citizen of one of the states of the Swiss Confederacy"). Geneva was John Calvin's adopted home and the centre of the Calvinist movement. In Geneva, Hugues, though Catholic, was a leader of the "Confederate Party", so called because it favoured independence from the Duke of Savoy through an alliance between the city-state of Geneva and the Swiss Confederation. The label Huguenot was purportedly first applied in France to those conspirators (all of them aristocratic members of the Reformed Church) involved in the Amboise plot of 1560: a foiled attempt to wrest power in France from the influential House of Guise. The move would have had the side effect of fostering relations with the Swiss. Thus, Hugues plus Eidgenosse by way of Huisgenoten supposedly became Huguenot, a nickname associating the Protestant cause with politics unpopular in France.[citation needed]

Answer the following questions:
1. What was the series of religious conflicts known as?
2. Between what religions?
3. Which of those capped out at two million followers?
4. In what year?
5. Was this the largest of the two religions?
6. How did it compare in size?
7. How many years did the conflict last?
8. Did it end with the Decree of Nantes?
9. How many types of freedom did it grant?
10. What is the origin of the smaller religious sect?
11. Who do scholars think it may have been named after?
12. Was that person actually a member of the larger religious sect?
13. What did he lead?
14. Was it named that because it wanted to split off from someone?
15. Who?
16. In what main country were these religious sects in?
17. Was the person who is possibly the namesake of the smaller sect from there?
18. What nation was he from?
19. Was the play on his surname flattering?
A: 1. the Wars of Religion
2. Huguenots and Catholics
3. Huguenot
4. 1562
5. no
6. about one-eighth the number of French Catholics
7. 32
8. yes
9. Three
10. it is unclear
11. unknown
12. yes
13. the "Confederate Party"
14. yes
15. the Duke of Savoy
16. France
17. Sno
18. Switzerland
19. no
Q: CHAPTER XVIDEVOTED

When John Jasper recovered from his fit or swoon, he found himself being tended by Mr. and Mrs. Tope, whom his visitor had summoned for the purpose. His visitor, wooden of aspect, sat stiffly in a chair, with his hands upon his knees, watching his recovery.

'There! You've come to nicely now, sir,' said the tearful Mrs. Tope; 'you were thoroughly worn out, and no wonder!'

'A man,' said Mr. Grewgious, with his usual air of repeating a lesson, 'cannot have his rest broken, and his mind cruelly tormented, and his body overtaxed by fatigue, without being thoroughly worn out.'

'I fear I have alarmed you?' Jasper apologised faintly, when he was helped into his easy-chair.

'Not at all, I thank you,' answered Mr. Grewgious.

'You are too considerate.'

'Not at all, I thank you,' answered Mr. Grewgious again.

'You must take some wine, sir,' said Mrs. Tope, 'and the jelly that I had ready for you, and that you wouldn't put your lips to at noon, though I warned you what would come of it, you know, and you not breakfasted; and you must have a wing of the roast fowl that has been put back twenty times if it's been put back once. It shall all be on table in five minutes, and this good gentleman belike will stop and see you take it.'

This good gentleman replied with a snort, which might mean yes, or no, or anything or nothing, and which Mrs. Tope would have found highly mystifying, but that her attention was divided by the service of the table.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Mrs. Tope offer to John Jasper?
2. Did she give him a warning earlier?
3. Who was there to help him after his fit?
4. Who else was there?
5. What did he say about getting rest?
6. Did Jasper apologize?
7. Where did they help him to?
8. What did the gentleman reply with?
9. What does that mean?
10. What did Mrs. Tope think about it?
11. Was she focused?
12. How was her attention divided?
13. What meal did John skip?
14. What did Mrs. Tope say he needed to have?
15. That has what?
16. Where is she going to put it?
17. In how long?
18. Who did he think was too considerate?
A:
1. wine and jelly
2. Yes
3. Mr. and Mrs. Tope,
4. Mr. Grewgious,
5. 'A man'cannot have his rest broken
6. yes
7. his easy-chair.
8. a snort,
9. might mean yes, or no, or anything or nothing
10. found highly mystifying
11. No
12. by the service of the table.
13. breakfast
14. a wing of the roast fowl
15. that has been put back twenty times if it's been put back once.
16. on the table
17. 5 minutes
18. Mr. Grewgious