Problem 1: What kinds of literature were available in China to those who could read?
Problem 2: Summarize the action of Moliére's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 21.2 (Act I Scene 1). Does it support or undermine the concept of nobility?
Problem 3: What are the main features of the aristocratic portrait? (Hyacinthe Riguad's Portrait of Louis XIV, Anthony Van Dyck's Charles I on Horseback, etc.)
Problem 4: Compare the palace complex at Versailles to the Mogul and Chinese complexes illustrated in Chapter 21. What differences do you see, if any, in the Eastern complexes? (note the plan of the imperial palace Forbidden City,Beijing, China; and the Red Fort in Delhi, India)
Problem 5: How does the "floating world" of Tokugawa Japan illustrate the "floating world (ukiyo)"?