Assignment

Answers of 3-5 sentences, unless otherwise directed.

1. Explain the process of social change set in motion by invention of the printing press.

2. Compare the powers of the French president to those of the American president.

3. Name two or three types of monuments found in France today that bear witness to the Gallo-Roman civilization of Imperial Rome?

4. Cite historical factors that contributed to to rise of absolutism in France that established the basis for the French appreciation of grandeur.

5. Cite one accomplishment and one challenge associated with each president who has served under the Fifth Republic.

6. Compare the French reaction to Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky to their former president Mitterrand's long-term extramarital relationship.

7. Define feudalism and relate the feudal order to the gradual expansion of the French royal domain by the Capetians.

8. In Au Contraire!, Asselin and Mastron write: "The paradox between French solidarity and individualism can be summed up as follows: On a personal level, I don't care if my cigarette smoke irritates you, but I will hold up the other end of your protest banner as we march together against the government." A-M, p. 49. How would a typical American react to this statement and why?

9. Briefly characterize the kinds of settlements that existed around 600 B.C. along the Mediterranean coast of what is now France.

10. Describe the French love of power. Give two examples.