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The witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries A. came out of the social unrest deriving from the shift from individualism to communalism. B. were often directed against old single women C. were generally directed only at people who denied that they were religious. The event that sparked the Thirty Years' War was A. a rebellion of Protestant nobles against the Catholic ruler Ferdinand in Bohemia. B. the invasion of France by Frederick IV. C. the Spanish conquest of the Netherlands and subsequent local enforcement of the bloody Inquisition. As a result of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 A. the German population was to be converted to Catholicism. B. all German states could choose their own religions, except for Calvinism. C. German states were allowed to determine their religion. Jacques Boussuet's Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture A. rejected as ungodly Louis XIV's system of absolute rule. B. was the fundamental statement of seventeenth-century divine right monarchy. C. stressed that a limited monarchy with representative bodies was the most divine form of human government. Absolutism means A. the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church. B. ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right. C. subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs state. As Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu was most successful in A. evicting the Huguenot presence from France after the La Rochelle rebellion. B. expanding the political and social rights of the Huguenots C. strengthening the central role of the monarchy in domestic and foreign policy. The series of noble revolts known as the Fronde resulted in A. the assassination of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661. B. renewed power for the Parlement of Paris. C. French citizens looking to the monarchy for stability. The economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's controller general of finances A. were noted for their innovation and originality. B. used new accounting practices to take the tax burden off the peasants.

C. were based on the economic theory of mercantilism that stressed government regulation of economic affairs to benefit the state. The costly palace built by Louis XIV, that became the envy of all European monarchs, was A. Fontainebleau. B. Versailles. C. Aix-la-Chapelle. The chief reason for the wars of Louis XIV was A. to reduce the power of the Habsburgs. B. his desire to insure dominance of France and his Bourbon dynasty in all Europe. C. to destroy the commercial superiority of the Dutch. Which of the following statements best applies to Peter the Great of Russia ? A. His program of Europeanization was predominantly technical and aimed at modernizing the military. B. His respect for western governments led to increased powers for the Duma. C. His traditional, conservative attitude stripped away all previous social gains for women. Peter the Great's foreign policy had as its primary goal A. opening of a port easily accessible to Europe. B. destruction of the Ottoman Empire. C. capture of the Scandinavian countries. James I of England alienated most of the members of Parliament by A. encouraging an alliance with Spain. B. insisting on his right to govern through Divine Right. C. persecuting Puritans. The Petition of Right (1628), among other things, A. stated that the King of England was elected. B. maintained that the King could pass no new tax without consent of Parliament. C. restored order in the English military. The Parliamentarians were successful in the English Civil War because A. they received aid from the French. B. their weaponry was superior to that of the King's forces. C. of the effectiveness of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army.

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