The name of the ruling family that initiated the development of strong central government in medieval France was the
A) Angevin.
B) Bourbon.
C) Valois.
D) Carolingian.
E) Capetian.
D
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following statements about Simone de Beauvoir is NOT accurate?
a. De Beauvoir was a leading existentialist. b. Her 1949 book, The Second Sex, became a feminist classic. c. Her polemical work, The Coming of Age (1972), is about the liberation of the individual from authority and the awesome burden of true freedom. d. De Beauvoir was a pacifist and a strong critic of French colonial rule in Algeria. e. She believed that an individual is solely responsible for who she becomes.
The term barrioization, coined by Albert Camarillo, describes the
a. upward mobility of Mexicans in California as they moved to mixed neighborhoods. b. process whereby former Californios continued their privileged lifestyles in neighborhoods segregated from the newly-arrived Mexican laborers. c. creation of separate, Spanish-speaking neighborhoods that developed rich cultural lives while economic opportunities within the larger community were limited. d. type of living quarters for Mexican construction workers and miners.
Before the Civil War, U. S. Grant’s career in and out of the army might best be described as
a. spotty. b. brilliant. c. drunken. d. flashy. e. a failure.