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1. Describe the Capitol disaster.
2. What did General Lee believe to be the duty of all who wished to
take part in the restoration of the state?
3. What position did he accept at the close of the war?
4. When did he die, and what is said of him?
5. Was education encouraged in colonial days?
6. What did Governor Berkeley say in regard to free schools?
7. When was the present public school system established, and what
is said of it?

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8. Mention some of the schools and colleges for higher education.
9. What was the Yorktown Centennial, and when was it held?
10. What is said of the state debt?
11. How was Virginia represented at the World's Fair?
12. What was the "White House of the Confederacy," and for what is
it now used?
13. What is said of the patriotism of Virginia women?
14. Name the patriotic societies that are sustained by them.
15. Give the names of the governors since the war.
16. Mention some of the resources of the state.
17. What does Matthew Fontaine Maury say of the state?
18. Mention some of the branches of industry which indicate her
progress.
19. What is said of the development of literature?
20. How did the plantation system retard its growth?
21. To what professions did the young men turn, and why?
22. What proves that there was not a want of intellectual ability?
23. When did Virginia receive a quickening impulse as to literature,
and what is said of it?
24. Who was John Marshall?
25. How does Virginia show that she holds her great men in remembrance?
26. Mention the names of some of these to whom monuments have
been raised.
27. What can be safely predicted in regard to the future history of
Virginia?