Cuestionario y fichas de estudio de The Ruins

Where does the traveler reflect on fallen societies?

Why does Volney resign his government employment?

What interrupts Volney's public work?

Where does Volney experiment with agriculture?

What explanation of misery does the apparition challenge?

Which event does the narrator watch through the vision?

What does the Genius identify as causes of Ottoman decline?

What are the apparent insects revealed to be?

How does the Genius challenge the narrator's despair?

According to the Genius, what sustains societies?

On what basis does the legislator gather the nations?

What interrupts the assembly's agreement?

How does the legislator propose examining religious arguments?

What does the narrator compare among the assembled nations?

How do the religious groups organize for the debate?

What does the independent spokesman identify as the source of ideas?

Which sequence of religious development does the spokesman describe?

How does the spokesman interpret miraculous accounts?

What does the independent group favor?

How does the spokesman explain animal worship?

What is the foundation of morality in the dialogue?

How are actions judged in the discussion of natural law?

How does the respondent define natural law?

Which duties follow from self-preservation?

What supports belief in God in the natural-law dialogue?

What does Volney refuse in his answer to Priestly?

What does Volney say Priestly's insults attack?

What distinction does Volney make about his speakers?

What does the closing astronomical discussion connect with religious images?

What does Volney defend in his reply?