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1. How could you explain the fact that Vilnius University was not only scientific Alma Mater but was also distinguished for its highest bell tower of a catholic church in the panorama of other churches and the whole Vilnius city? While answering the question remember the official Latin name of Vilnius University in the 16th-18th centuries: Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Jesu.

2. What is the highest sacral building in your city or place of residence?

3. Why in many European cities the bell towers are the highest sacral buildings?

4. What can you tell about Vilnius University with a reference to the given biographies?

5. Try to give some criteria, by which the scientists of Vilnius University could be described.

6. Why had Jokūbas Bosgravijus suffered a lot for the good of faith when he returned to his homeland? What confessional processes of the 16th c. could be seen through this case?

7. Why was catholic bishop of Vilnius against the establishment of new schools without his permission or permission of the head of the state?

8. Why at the second half of the 16th century Catholics, Reformats, and other confessions were so much concerned with the issues of schools and education?

9. What could you tell about the status of a teacher in Vilnius in the 16th century?

10. What is similar between the contemporary and the 16th century teacher and how do they differ?