American War.

5. Thoreau's essay about why an individual's conscience can take precedence over civil laws would inspire Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Name the original title of the essay.

a. "Civil Disobedience."

b. "Resistance to Civil Government."

c. "Speak Truth to Power."

d. "The Universe Bends Toward Justice."

6. To what issue was Thoreau referring when he wrote, "They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and make-shifts, merely. They put off the day of settlement indefinitely, and meanwhile, the debt accumulates"?

a. Tariffs and the national debt.

b. Secession.

c. The Dred Scott decision.

d. The Fugitive Slave Act.

7. Whom was Thoreau referring to when he wrote, "If there is any abode for the spirits of the pious; if, as wise men suppose, great souls are not extinguished with the body, may you rest placidly, and call your family . . . to the contemplation of your virtues, which must not be lamented, either silently or aloud. Let us honor you by our admiration, rather than by short-lived praises, and, if nature aid us, by our emulation of you"?

a. Abraham Lincoln.

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

c. John Brown.

d. Frederick Douglass.

8. Which quote is Thoreau not known for?

a. "Simplify, simplify."

b. "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life."