Thoreau Reading
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After reading Thoreau's Civil Disobedience answer the following questions.
According to Thoreau:
Questions and Answers
- 1.
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 2.
Unjust laws do not exist.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 3.
If a man who has no property refuses but once to earn nine shillings for the State, he is put in prison for a period unlimited by any law that I know, and determined only by the discretion of those who placed him there; but if he should steal ninety times nine shillings from the State, he is soon permitted to go at large again.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 4.
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 5.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is not a prison.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
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