Civil Disobedience Part 3 Questions

RI.9-10.2-- Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific
details; provide an objective summary of the text.
1. How does Thoreau describe his experience in the jail?

2. How does Thoreau use figurative language to describe the

experience of spending a night in jail? What effect does Thoreau
create on the reader through his description of the jail?

3. What does Thoreau do when he is freed from jail? How do his

actions develop a central idea?

4. How does Thoreau describe those around him after his

experience in prison?

5. What does Thoreaus metaphor suggest about the authority of

the Bible and the Constitution in paragraph 17?

6. What distinction does Thoreau make between the man with a

genius for legislation and orators, politicians, and eloquent
men in part 3, paragraph 18?

7. How does Thoreaus criticism of legislators develop his ideas

about the exercise of power in part 3, paragraph 18?

8. What would make the authority of a government just, according

to Thoreau in paragraph 19?

9. What is Thoreaus view of democracy in part 3, paragraph 19?

10. Which sentence of part 3, paragraphs 1719 is most critical to

your understanding of Civil Disobedience and why?