What part of the United States did the Eagles come from?

In Henri Testelin's Jean-Baptiste Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Science to Louis XIV, why does Louis look out of place amid the scientific dignitaries and instruments?

a. He looks bewildered by the instruments. b. He is the image of ostentatious excess. c. He is much shorter than the scientists. d. He is rendered obsolete by the scientists.

Classified ads of the slave period often mentioned slaves' European instrumental skills to potential

owners because

a. these were desirable skills to most whites b. this usually meant a slave had property (the instrument) that could be used by someone else or sold c. owners liked to know ahead of time if there were hobbies that might distract slaves from their daily chores d. such skills made them less valuable and "disclosure laws" had been established