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 Seneca's Minor Dialogues: anger, the shortness of life, tranquillity of mind, the happy life and clemency, quoting Aubrey Stewart's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the dialogue.

Answers questions on Camille Flammarion's Astronomy for Amateurs: the sky, the Moon, the Sun, the planets, comets and the stars, quoting Frances A. Welby's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Plato's Symposium: the speeches on love by Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Agathon and Socrates, Diotima and Alcibiades, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the speech.

Answers questions on Aristotle's Politics: the household and the city, citizenship, constitutions, revolutions and the best state, quoting William Ellis's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.