The paintings of Velázquez are characterized by
A) detachment and mastery of technique in depicting the life of the Spanish court.
B) the tendency to embellish or flatter his royal subjects.
C) a preference for lower-class scenes and subjects.
D) a preference for pastoral scenes depicting his noble subjects as shepherds and shepherdesses.
A
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The ________ Treaty settled the disputed boundary between Maine and New Brunswick and demonstrated the growing Anglo-American economic dependence
A) Transcontinental B) Clayton-Bulwer C) Webster-Ashburton D) Gadsden
President Truman had been informed of the atomic bomb
a) from the beginning of the creation of the Manhattan Project. b) only after being elected vice president. c) only after his first cabinet meeting as president. d) only after the first bomb was successfully tested. e) only after the decision to use it had been made.
Which of these did physicians attribute to the cause and spread of epidemic diseases in the mid-nineteenth century?
A) Intercontinental travel. B) Gases that arose from rotten vegetables or dead animals. C) Bacteria. D) Sinfulness. E) All of these choices
Among the inhabitants of Tiwanaku, a wooden foot plow with perhaps a bronze blade seems to have been the main farming implement, but:
a. It seems impossible that even a metal tool could penetrate the hard-packed soil of the Andes. b. There are no natural sources for bronze in the vicinity. c. Hard archaeological proof remains elusive. d. It would have been unlikely that llamas could draw a plow of that weight.