One can say of Joan of Arc that
a. her story was thrilling, but her life had little impact on the French.
b. in spite of her aristocratic birth, the peasants loved her.
c. propagandists claimed that she was sent by God to help the French, but she never claimed that divine mission.
d. she helped to rescue the French from the English at a time that the French had almost won the war.
e. she was imprisoned by the English.
e
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A) monetary inflation B) excessive nationalism C) radical labor unions D) Communist agitators E) Islamic encroachment
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eighteenth-century idea of A) complementarity. B) moral equality. C) the inferiority of women. D) women as witches.
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a. slavery b. the disposition of western lands c. American relations with European countries d. regulating trade with British manufacturers e. boundaries between the states
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