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True-False Questions

Which statements below are true and which are false?

This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
Absolute monarchs built strong bureaucracies to collect taxes and support big armies.

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Question 2.
The palace of Versailles epitomized the grandiose Gothic style.

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Question 3.
Colbert's mercantilism included raising tariffs against imported goods, reducing internal tolls, and building roads and canals.

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Question 4.
Due to Louis XIV's patronage, the Académie Française became the foremost private school in the seventeenth century.

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Question 5.
One-third of the German population perished during the Thirty Years' War.

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Question 6.
The Habsburg emperors of Austria successfully applied absolutist principles to centralize their government and integrate their vast holdings.

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Question 7.
Ottoman sultans ruled more despotically than other absolute monarchs in Europe.

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Question 8.
After his trip to the West, Peter the Great introduced Protestant forms of worship to counter the power of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

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Question 9.
William of Orange served as both King of England and captain-general of the seven Dutch provinces.

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Question 10.
The Dutch artists of the seventeenth century painted portraits, street scenes, and landscapes to appeal to a middle-class clientele.

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