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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Walking.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main theme of 'Civil Disobedience'?
(a) Religion in politics.
(b) Moral responsibility.
(c) The role of politics.
(d) Appropriate places to disobey.

2. What did Thoreau say the issue of slavery was doing to his state?
(a) Immoralizing it.
(b) Capitulating it.
(c) Polarizing it.
(d) Desensitizing it.

3. What month did Brown lead his attack?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) September.
(d) December.

4. How does Thoreau describe slavery in 'Civil Disobedience'?
(a) Useful.
(b) Necessary.
(c) Shameful.
(d) Evil.

5. Where did Thoreau say people should consider themselves inhabitants of?
(a) Society.
(b) America.
(c) Their bodies.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Thoreau pleading for in his speech about John Brown?

2. Who does Thoreau say should provide what government needs for them to have authority?

3. What did Thoreau say media devices should have been doing?

4. How does Thoreau say soldiers are expected to perform their duties?

5. How did Brown come to have a trial?

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