Finance Was Always the Weakest Point of the French Monarchy

question 32

Multiple Choice

Finance was always the weakest point of the French monarchy, and the main weakness arose from an old bargain between:

• A) the intermediate tax officials and the private concessionaries.
• B) the peasants and the merchants.
• C) the French crown and the nobility.
• D) the French crown and the unprivileged classes.

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Definitions:

Echoic Memory

The auditory memory of an event stored in the sensory register.

Serial Position Effect

The faster learning and greater recall of items at the beginning and end of a list rather than at the middle of the list.

Recall

The act of retrieving information or memories from one's past without the aid of specific cues for retrieval.

List Learning

is a memory process that involves remembering a series of items or elements in a particular order.