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Part 1

1. What is the significance of the familial setting in image A? Why was it important for nationalists to emphasize a multigenerational family as the repository of German national spirit?

2. How do images B and C treat the question of Prussia's role within the new German nation? Is German national identity seen as something built from below or defined from above by a strong monarchy?

3. What is the place of the individual citizen in these representations of the German nation?

Part 2

1. What vision of history and social progress is celebrated in this link between France's colonial holdings and the industrial power displayed in the Eiffel Tower?

2. What might account for the popularity of the Cairo Street exhibit?

3. Why was it important for the exposition to place people from European colonies on display?

Part 3

1. What fears about the economy are exploited in image A? (Compare this image with the one of socialists circling the globe, hand in hand, on page 783.)

2. Is Le Rire's portrait of Édouard Drumont (image B) anti-Semitic? Or is it critical of Drumont's anti-Semitism?

3. Taken together, what do these images tell us about the connections among anti-Semitism, the popular press, and the definitions of national identity that were current in France during the Affair?

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