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Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows. It is true that if men were good and perfect, they would never take up arms for the sake of religion. Yet, we cannot deny that religion, good or bad, can arouse mens passions more than anything else. No belief penetrates more deeply into the hearts of men than religion or divides them more widely from each other. Indeed, an Englishman and a Frenchman of the same faith are closer in friendship than two Frenchmen from the same city, subject to the same lord, who have different faiths. Religious difference can deter the subject from obeying his king and can produce rebellion. For this reason, we must remove this evil and remedy it through a religious council of the kingdom so that we may not bring war into the kingdom through rebellion. If the decline of our church has given birth to heresies, then its reform may serve to extinguish them. We must henceforth assail our religious enemies with the proper weapons of religious conflict: charity, prayer, persuasion, and the word of God. Let us banish those devilish names Lutheran, Huguenot, Papist that breed only faction and sedition. Let us retain only one name: Christian. Michel de LHpital, Catholic chancellor of the kingdom of France, speech to the Estates-General (parliament) of the city of Orlans, France, 1560 a) Identify ONE purpose of the speech. b) Identify ONE historical development that may have influenced the views expressed in the speech. c) Identify ONE piece of evidence used by the author to support his argument that religion can arouse mens passions more than anything else.