Henry David Thoreau: from "Civil Disobedience" - Read

Question 1

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• problems with Mexican-American war
• need for the abolition of slavery
• too-involved government that tried to impose its values on everyone rather than respecting the rights of the individuals

Question 2

in section 13 of Civil Disobedience, Thoreau is asked by the State to pay for the support of a certain clergyman; instead, Thoreau made a written statement, declaring:

Answer 2

I.. do not wish to be regarded as a member of any incorporated society which I have not joined

Question 3

in the underlined passage in section 7 of his writings on Civil Disobedience, Thoreau explains that once we start seeing the correct principles and then acting on them, we find that it divides states, churches, families, and even divides the individual, because it

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separates the diabolical in him from the divine

Question 4

in section 2 of the excerpt from Civil Disobedience, Thoreau uses a metaphor when talking about the American government, saying that it is

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it is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves

Question 5

according to the account given in section 18 of his writings on Civil Disobedience, after his release from his night in prison Thoreau found his neighbors to be

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“summer weather” friends who were, after all, not so noble

Question 6

in section 3 from Civil Disobedience, Thoreau reveals that the force behind all of this country’s enterprise – its freedom, its expansion, its education, its trade and commerce – is

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the character inherent in the American people

Question 7

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Answer 7

• governments historically ridicule and persecute their most significant citizens
• a standing government
• better able to combat it
• sorry enough for the war to hire a soldier who refuses to fight it, but not sorry enough to stop it