Q: CHAPTER I. THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER VI

Unfortunate Naples was a battle-field once more. France and Spain were engaged there in a war whose details belong elsewhere.

To the aid of France, which was hard beset and with whose arms things were going none too well, Cesare was summoned to fulfil the obligations under which he was placed by virtue of his treaty with King Louis.

Rumours were rife that he was negotiating secretly with Gonzalo de Cordoba, the Great Captain, and the truth of whether or not he was guilty of so base a treachery has never been discovered. These rumours had been abroad since May, and, if not arising out of, they were certainly stimulated by, an edict published by Valentinois concerning the papal chamberlain, Francesco Troche. In this edict Cesare enjoined all subjects of the Holy See to arrest, wherever found, this man who had fled from Rome, and whose flight "was concerned with something against the honour of the King of France."

Francesco Troche had been Alexander's confidential chamberlain and secretary; he had been a diligent servant of the House of Borgia, and when in France had acted as a spy for Valentinois, keeping the duke supplied with valuable information at a critical time, as we have seen.

Villari says of him that he was "one of the Borgias' most trusted assassins." That he has never been so much as alleged to have murdered anyone does not signify. He was a servant--a trusted servant--of the Borgias; therefore the title of "assassin" is, ipso facto, to be bestowed upon him.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Alexander's secretary?
2. Where did the secretary serve?
3. How was his service described?
4. Did he do any other thing other than being a secretary?
5. Was he a killer?
6. Could he be described as someone good at this?
7. What is the tittle of this page?
8. Which place was described as a battle field
9. Which people fight there?
10. What was the rumours goinh on?
11. Did they eventually find out the truth
12. When did the rumor start to spread?
A: 1. Francesco Troche
2. the House of Borgia
3. he had been a diligent servant
4. and when in France had acted as a spy
5. yes
6. yes
7. CHAPTER I. THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER VI
8. Naples was a battle-field once more.
9. France and Spain
10. he was negotiating secretly with Gonzalo de Cordoba
11. no
12. since May,

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Jamaica () is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles. The island, in area, lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Jamaica is the fourth-largest island country in the Caribbean, by area.

Inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taino peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people died of disease, and the Spanish imported African slaves as labourers. Named "", the island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it and renamed it Jamaica. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with its plantation economy highly dependent on slaves forcibly transported from Africa. The British fully emancipated all slaves in 1838, and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations. Beginning in the 1840s, the British imported Chinese and Indian indentured labour to work on plantations. The island achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962.

With /1e6 round 1 million people, Jamaica is the third-most populous Anglophone country in the Americas (after the United States and Canada), and the fourth-most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city, with a population of 937,700. Jamaicans predominately have African ancestry, with significant European, Chinese, Indian, and mixed-race minorities. Due to a high rate of emigration for work since the 1960s, Jamaica has a large diaspora around the world, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

1. How many Anglophone countries in the Americas have more people than Jamaica?
2. Is Mexico one of those?
3. What countries then?
4. How many more populous countries exist in the Caribbean?
5. Is there over 500,000 people in Jamaica?
6. What's the biggest city?
7. What about its capital?
8. How many people live in the city?
9. What is their main ancestry?
10. Did a lot of people leave the country in the 1960s?
11. Why?
12. Are there many Jamaicans in the UK?
13. Where else?
14. Is it in the Mediterranean Sea?
15. Which sea?
16. What island is north of it?
17. Who arrived in the fifteenth century?
18. What are the native people called?
19. Who named it Jamaica?
20. What does it export?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Two
2. no
3. United States and Canada
4. Three
5. yes
6. Kingston
7. Kingston
8. 937,700
9. African
10. yes
11. high rate of emigration for work
12. yes
13. Canada and the United States
14. no
15. Caribbean
16. Cuba
17. Christopher Columbus
18. Arawak and Taino peoples
19. England
20. sugar