On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

What is the central idea of "Civil Disobedience"?

• People must overthrow the government.

• Most government will do its best for its citizens.

• The fewer people who run the government, the better.

• Citizens should be willing to act on their own sense of right and wrong.

Thoreau's view of the war with Mexico is best described as

• He was not interested in the war.

• He supported the United States military

• He was against it.

• He wanted to fight in the war.

According to Thoreau, to what does a person owe the strongest loyalty?

• God’s moral authority

• his or her conscience

• his or her state government

• “this American government”

Thoreau uses the phrase “that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards in order to:

• demonstrate the difference between democracy and monarchy.

• argue that humans have a need for government

• explain the need for loyalty to one's own country.

• further the claim that each individual must follow his or her own conscience.

Thoreau compares government to a machine. In his comparison, what should a good person do with this machine?

• A good person should be like a mechanic that fixes the machine.

• A good person should be like a broken part that stops the machine from working.

• A good person should stop using the machine altogether

• A good person is a machine herself.

convenience; means to an end

• expedient

• perverted

• posterity

• alacrity

misdirected; corrupted

• perverted

• posterity

• alacrity

• inherent

promptness in responding; eagerness

• alacrity

• inherent

• insurrection

• expedient

An appeal to emotions

• Pathos

• Rhetoric

• Ethos

An appeal to logic

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos