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Lesson Three: Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience"

Question 3 • 26/27 ENGLISH 11 A

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

Answer
A
Both thought that they had committed a moral and necessary act of defiance.
B
Both believed that their imprisonment actually showed high respect for the law.
C
Both reflected that they lost their inner freedom while imprisoned.
D
Both expressed outrage at their imprisonment.

Explanation

Both men treated their defiance as a moral response to injustice. Thoreau refused to support a government that upheld slavery and waged an unjust war, and King accepted arrest as part of resisting segregation and unjust laws. King explicitly described breaking an unjust law openly as showing respect for the law, but that does not mean both men made that same claim about their imprisonment. Neither said imprisonment took away his inner freedom.

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