21. Why have queens never ruled in France?
22. Compare the Hundred Years' War and the Peloponnesian War as needless conflicts.
23. Compare Joan of Arc's visions with those of Mohammed.
24. "Beyond the Pyrenees begins Africa." What does this statement mean?
25. Why was Spain inconspicuous in European politics before the opening of the sixteenth century?
26. Look up in an encyclopedia the story of William Tell and prepare an oral report upon it.
27. Why was the German system of elective rulers politically less advantageous than the settled hereditary succession which prevailed in England and France?
FOOTNOTES
[1] Webster, Readings in Medieval and Modern History, chapter xiv, "St. Louis"; chapter xv, "Episodes of the Hundred Years' War"; chapter xvi, "Memoirs of a French Courtier."
[2] The name comes from that of the broom plant (Latin planta genesta), a sprig of which Henry's father used to wear in his hat. The family is also called Angevin, because Henry on his father's side descended from the counts of Anjou in France.