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WD_ADJ_JUNE_05

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Egyptian Jews enjoyed self-government in internal affairs under their nagid, or prince; they rose to wealth in commerce and to a _ _ _ _ place in the administration of the Moslem state. [4 Letters; H _ _ _]

(a)  

2.

He received a _ _ _ _ education at Trier and Rome, learned the Latin classics well, and loved them, he thought, to the point of sin. [4 Letters; G _ _ _]

(a)  

3.

He was educated in the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ parochial schools there and in Kearny, New Jersey, and thereafter in St. Peter’s (Jesuit) College, Jersey City, New Jersey, and Columbia University. [8 Letters; C _ _ _ _ _ _ C]

(a)  

4.

A _ _ _ _ man has never been sculptured in that condition; M. Pigalle would believe that he was being played with; [4 Letters; P _ _ _]

(a)  

5.

"42 Religion is not the source nor the mainstay of our moral sentiments, but these are strongly influenced by belief in the derivation of the _ _ _ _ _ code from a rewarding and punishing God. [5 Letters; M _ _ _ L]

(a)  

6.

All London feted him, but _ _ _ _ _ _ opinion condemned his continued attachment to another man’s wife. [6 Letters; P _ _ _ _ C]

(a)  

7.

Payment in kind survived to some degree, as a legacy from ancient Egypt; and the grain of the _ _ _ _ _ treasuries was used as part of the bank reserve; but deposits, withdrawals, [5 Letters; R _ _ _ L]

(a)  

8.

Between the nobles and the peasants a small and politically powerless _ _ _ _ _ _ class slowly took form. [6 Letters; M _ _ _ _ E]

(a)  

9.

Its refinements wearied it, its debaucheries exhausted it; _ _ _ _ and poor were still subject to pain and grief and death. [4 Letters; R _ _ _]

(a)  

10.

On June 6 an _ _ _ _ _ _ army of 26, surprised the Poles near Szczekociny; Kosciusko had time to bring up only 14, men. [6 Letters; A _ _ _ _ D]

(a)  

11.

Salvestro’s grandnephew, Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici, gonfalonier in 1421, further endeared the family to the people by supporting ; though he himself would suffer heavily from it ; an _ _ _ _ _ _ tax (catasto) [6 Letters; A _ _ _ _ L]

(a)  

12.

The Prince de Condé declared it his opinion that if it pleased the King to go over to Protestantism, the _ _ _ _ _ _ clergy would be the first to follow him. [6 Letters; F _ _ _ _ H]

(a)  

13.

Putting his worse foot forward, and surrendering to Augustine’s logic and eloquence, Wyclif built his creed upon that awful doctrine of predestination which was to remain even to our day the magnet and solvent of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ theology. [10 Letters; P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T]

(a)  

14.

Before the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ century the only musical notation used by the Gregorian chant consisted of small signs derived from the Greek accent marks, and placed over the words to be sung. [8 Letters; E _ _ _ _ _ _ H]

(a)  

15.

Within Russia itself trade was discouraged by _ _ _ _ _ distances and forbidding roads. [5 Letters; G _ _ _ T]

(a)  

16.

The comic poets, since their plays require rich men to finance their production, are on the side of the drachmas, and pour ridicule upon the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ leaders and their utopias. [7 Letters; R _ _ _ _ _ L]

(a)  

17.

Nicolaus of Damascus, besides mentoring Antony, Cleopatra, and Herod, undertook the weary task of writing a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ history ; a labor, he tells us, that Hercules himself would have shunned. [9 Letters; U _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L]

(a)  

18.

Alexander gloried in his son’s success; "the Pope," reported the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ambassador, "is more cheerful than ever. [8 Letters; V _ _ _ _ _ _ N]

(a)  

19.

"159 It is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to say how thoroughly the medieval Hindu widow was reconciled to suttee by religious inculcation and belief, [9 Letters; D _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T]

(a)  

20.

In preparation for their coming she personally prepared a Nakaz , or Instructions , describing the principles upon which the _ _ _ code should be formed. [3 Letters; N _ _]

(a)