Questions

I. Story

1. What countries are personified by three characters in the story?

2. Do you think that the features described in the story are characteristics to each of three peoples (Romanian, Bulgarian and Latvian)?

3. Do you think that fighting the hydra stands for turning uni-partidism into pluri-partidism?

4. Do you think that fighting the cerberus stands for separating the powers in the state?

5. Are there any connections between the dragon and censorship?

6. Why do you think corruption can only be defeated by aiming at the dragon’s heart?

7. Which of three princes do you think Princess Demo chose in the end?

II. Democracy

1. What is democracy?

2. What is the diffenrence between “republic” and “democracy”?

3. What do you know about ancient democracies in Greece and Rome?

4. What are the principles of democracies during the Middle Ages?

5. What is Jean Jacques Rousseau’s theory on democracy?

6. What is “representative democracy”?

7. What inspired the establishment of democratic governments all over the world?

8. What is the U.S. Declaration of Independence?

9. What are the major features of modern democracy and in what great historic documents are they mentioned?

10. What is the Rights of Man Declaration?