The incorrect answer would be that the pronoun “he” should be changed to they”. The pronoun “he” should be changed to “him”
The root word that we are able to extract from the given sentence is protracted.
The word means lasting for sometime longer than the original or originally set plan. In the context of the given item, the meaning of protracted conversation would be long and involved. Thus, the answer to this item is the 1st choice.
The details in the passage support the central idea by providig examples of how laws and attitudes about equality changed in France. While in other parts of Europe, for example in eastern Europe, farmers were considered objects which could be sold, the Declaration of Independence of 1716 in France stated that all men are equal. Such thought was unbearable in societies in which slavery was a fact and the idea of equality was against the natural order. Furthermore, to give another example of how France presented unmatched arguments and ideas about equality, the texts tells us that in the Age of Sugar, a momento in which slavery was more cruel than ever, the ideas of equality of Lemerre the Younger started to be heard as the new reality in France.