Philip II built the massive palatial complex of _________, incorporating a royal residence, a monastic school and a royal necropolis, a very short distance away from the then small provincial city of Madrid.

a. Aranjuez
b. Riofrío
c. La Granja
d. El Escorial


d. El Escorial

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The Civil War caused the northern economy to experience

A) soaring prices after 1862. B) high levels of unemployment. C) dramatic increases in immigration. D) relatively few strikes.

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Many Americans were against the 1991 Persian Gulf War because a. they were afraid that Iran would come to Iraq's aid and declare war against the United States. b. they accepted Saddam Hussein's claim that Kuwait was not a separate nation but merely a province of Iraq. c. they took seriously the Soviet Union's threat of nuclear retaliation if the United States used armed forceagainst Iraq

d. they believed that economic sanctions against Iraq should be given more time to work.

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The _____ is the second stage of coming apart in Knapp's model that refers to restraining communication behaviors so that fewer topics are raised (for fear of conflict) and more issues are out of bounds for partners

A) avoiding stage B) differentiating stage C) circumscribing stage D) stagnating stage E) terminating stage

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In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

A) wrote in support of the French Revolution B) suggested the importance of spreading revolution throughout Europe. C) suggested that sudden change was an important means of renewing society. D) condemned the radical republican and democratic ideas of the French Revolution. E) argued against the idea that the state should be considered a partnership agreement.

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