The ultimate goal of the Fronde was to __________
A) revoke the Edict of Nantes
B) grant freedom of religion to Protestants in France
C) limit royal power
D) overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic
Answer: C
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Martin Van Buren regarded a __________ as essential to democratic government.
a. system of government censorship b. parliamentary system c. one-party system d. two-party system
The most powerful fascist state was __________
A) Spain B) Germany C) Italy D) Japan
The state of Parthia became a major power in the second century BCE for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
a. The Seleucids were distracted by conflicts on their western front with Ptolemaic Egypt. b. The Parthians recognized Seleucid overlordship while also expanding their power. c. The Wudi emperor of China threatened to attack the Seleucid territory of Bactria. d. The Seleucids were reduced to a small rump kingdom after the Parthian conquest of Iran and Mesopotamia.
Flaubert's novel, Madame Bovary is about a
a. middle class wife who is rejected by her husband for taking out a loan without his permission. b. respectable provincial wife who, bored with her life and her husband, commits adultery and dies of poisoning. c. young factory worker who is forced into a life of prostitution. d. governess who falls in love with her noble employer but is treated as a leper by his family and peers. e. bourgeois wife who out of a sense of duty never reveals to her husband that she never loved him.