AP Euro Quotation and Literature Flash-Card Worsheet
Directions: Analysis is an important skill that students throughout the year will
constantly work with through primary sources. The following two activities will
introduce students to analysis through the use of quotations and literature.
1. Quotations Flash-Cards
a. You will need to print out four copies of the AP European History Quotation
Flash-Card.
b. On the following pages, you will find a list of 24 famous quotes from
European history. You need to select 12 quotes to analyze. In the FlashCard box, write the quote and author in the appropriate box. Analyze the
quote and answer the following question in the designated box, “What is
the context/meaning of the quote?” You may use the Internet or other
resources to look up the quote for help.
c. Analysis of the quote must be in your own words. Plagiarism will not be
tolerated and will result in a zero for the assignment.
2. Literature Flash-Cards
a. You will need to print out four copies of the AP European History Literature
Flash-Cards.
b. On the following pages, you will find a list of 24 famous works of literature
from European history. You need to select 12 works of literature. Use
the Internet to answer the two questions in complete thoughts on the flashcard.
c. Answers must be in your own words. Plagiarism will not be tolerated
and will result in a zero for the assignment.
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY QUOTATION FLASH-CARDS
Quote:
Author:
What is the context/meaning of the quote?
Quote:
Author:
What is the context/meaning of the quote?
Quote:
Author:
What is the context/meaning of the quote?
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY QUOTATIONS
"The Great decisions of the day will not be decided by speeches or majority
decisions...but by iron and blood."
- Otto von Bismarck
"The Revolution is over! I am the Revolution!"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended
across the continent."
- Winston Churchill
"Victory has been bought at a price so dear as to be indistinguishable from defeat."
- Winston Churchill
"I think, therefore I am."
- Rene Descartes
"I am the first servant of the state."
- Frederick II of Prussia
"I will not accept the crown from the gutter."
- Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia
"And yet, it still moves!"
- Galileo Galilei
"Paris is worth a mass."
- Henry IV of France
"No bishops, no king!"
- James I of England
"Bread, Peace, Land!"
- Lenin
"Not bad, considering I was sitting between Jesus Christ and Napoleon."
-David Lloyd George
"L'etat c'est moi.
- Louis XIV of France
"Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
- Martin Luther
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of
giants."
- Isaac Newton
"The proletarians have nothing to lose by their chains. They have a world to win.
Workers of all lands, unite!"
- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
"Men are to be changed by, not to change, religion."
- Pope Paul III
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"It is us today. It will be you tomorrow."
- Haile Selassie
"Czar Alexander got to Paris!"
- Joseph Stalin
"Sire, we must do from above what the French have done from below."
- Baron von Stein
"Crush the infamous thing!"
- Voltaire
"Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg."
- Wilhelm II of Germany
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
- Woodrow Wilson
AP European History Literature Flash-Cards
Name of Book:
Date:
Author:
What is the subject of this book? The subject of this book is…
Why was this book written? This book was written…
Name of Book:
Date:
Author:
What is the subject of this book? The subject of this book is…
Why was this book written? This book was written…
Name of Book:
Author:
What is the subject of this book? The subject of this book is…
Why was this book written? This book was written…
Date:
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY LITERATURE FLASH-CARDS
1. Boccaccio, Giovanni, The Decameron (1353)
2. Erasmus, Desiderius, Praise of Folly (1511)
3. Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince (1513)
4. More, Thomas, Utopia (1516)
5. Luther, Martin, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
6. Loyola, Ignatius, Spiritual Exercises (1521)
7. Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan (1651)
8. Locke, John, The Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690)
9. de Montesquieu, Baron, Spirit of the Laws (1748)
10. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, The Social Contract (1762)
11. Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
12. Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the French Revolution (1790)
13. Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
14. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (1818)
15. Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species (1859)
16. Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary (1857)
17. Malthus, Thomas, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
18. Marx, Karl & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
19. de Beauvoir, Simone, The Second Sex (1949)
20. Freud, Sigmund, Civilization and its Discontents (1929)
21. Hitler, Adolf, Mein Kampf (1924)
22. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, What is to be Done? (1902)
23. Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
24. Sartre, Jean-Paul, Being and Nothingness (1943)