The English Gentry in the Seventeenth Century Were Different from Nobles

The English gentry in the seventeenth century were different from nobles in most of Europe because

A) they had ultimate control over national policy.
B) they constituted a much larger portion of the population than did the nobility in other places.
C) the great majority of them dissented from the official church.
D) they were successfully controlled by an absolutist monarch.
E) All these answers are correct.