18 Synthesizing Information: A French noble wrote this on the causes of the
revolution: "The most striking of the
country's troubles was the chaos in its
finances, the result of years of extrav-
agance. ... No one could think of any
remedy, except to search for fresh
funds." (a) What did the noble mean
by "chaos in its finances"? (b) How
were fresh funds raised? (c) How did
this lead to revolution?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference

Experimented with communism before taking part in a number of civil rights and antiwar protest

Which two sentences in this passage talk about china’s efforts to curb environmental degradation?