Evaluating a Text's Significance in History: Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience"

Question 1

Based on this passage, how did Thoreau feel about his confinement?

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inwardly free

Question 2

What did you include in your response? Check all that apply.

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Thoreau’s disapproval of the government; the essay’s failure to stop slavery or the government’s desire to expand westward; the idea of disobeying an unjust law; a consideration of social movements involving civil disobedience

Question 3

Which transcendental belief supports Thoreau’s feeling of inner freedom?

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Society and government corrupt the individual.

Question 4

Which of the following statements are true of both Thoreau’s and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s attitudes toward imprisonment?

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Both thought that they had committed a moral and necessary act of defiance.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes both Thoreau’s and King’s attitudes toward government and civil disobedience?

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a belief that an individual should disobey unjust laws

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