Common Sense Assistant

Answers questions on Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery: his early life, education and founding of the Tuskegee Institute, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: his life in slavery, learning to read and his escape, quoting the 1845 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind: Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the revolutions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Part I: equality, local self-government and the tyranny of the majority, quoting Henry Reeve's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

Answers questions on Jane Austen's Persuasion: Anne Elliot, Captain Wentworth, Lyme, Bath and second chances, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Homer's Iliad: the wrath of Achilles, Hector and Troy, the gods and the funeral games, quoting Samuel Butler's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on L. H. Bailey's Manual of Gardening: soil, planting, the vegetable garden, fruit trees, pruning and ornamental planting, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Hoyle's Games Modernized: the rules of whist, poker, cribbage, piquet, chess and other card and table games, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the game.