Catherine de Médicis convinced the king to execute the Protestant leaders in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre because she claimed that _______
A. the Guise family had plotted to kill him and take the throne for themselves
B. a Protestant coup was afoot, and that he must save the crown from an attack on Paris
C. she had been plotting an assassination of Coligny
D. the Huguenots had already massacred thousands of peasants
Answer: B
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