Which word means “blank paper” or “full discretionary power”?

A carpe diem

B status quo

C carte blanche

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Which word means “openness” or “transparency”?

A carte blanche

B coup d’état

C glasnost

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The Emperor was slow to change laws in his empire because he didn’t want to disrupt the ___________.

A carte blanche

B status quo

C carpe diem

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The events in Libya, which resulted in Colonel Gaddafi’s death and a change in leadership, could be described as a _____________.

A glasnost

B avant-garde

C coup d’état

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Since prerevolutionary American history, _________ has guaranteed that people seized and detained by the government have the right to question the grounds for their detention.

A habeas corpus

B détente

C gulag

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Capitalism is based on the economic principal of _________.

A carte blanche

B détente

C laissez-faire

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Russia was ruled by a king or ______________ for hundreds of years until the Russian Revolution.

A czar

B gulag

C glasnost

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While in St. Petersburg, Russia, my grandmother took me to an old _______ where people were forced to shovel coal against their will.

A czar

B gulag

C glasnost

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German bombers flew over England, bombed their targets, and moved out so quickly that their actions were called a _________.

A hubris

B blitzkrieg

C habeas corpus

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Julius Caesar’s fall from power was a result of ___________.

A hubris

B glasnost

C carte blanche

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