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This is a concern Thoreau has in Walden.

I have read and understand ALL of the rules outlined in the Lab Midterm module.  Some of the rules include: 1. You must be seated in a chair at a table or desk that is clear of everything. 2. You may NOT have any other technology device present. 3. You are not allowed to leave the testing area 4. Your face must remain in view of the web cam at all times and your eyes MUST remain fixed on your screen 5. You may not use any resources on proctored exams I understand that failure to follow the rules outlined for remote proctoring will result on a 0 on the exam.

Identify the speaker: “When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.”

Name the author: I studied in my father’s law office, but I was a woman so I could not practice law. I attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention with my abolitionist husband but as a woman could not participate. I was active in organizing for women’s rights in a historical convention but did not live to see women get the right to vote in 1920.

Identify the author: Spending most of my forty-four years in Concord, I was actively concerned with social issues and with a feeling for the unity of humanity as seen in my writing. I am in the line of philosophers who have seen me as the origin of the modern concept of passive resistance as the final instrument of minority opinion to fight injustice, which found demonstration in Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. I chose to live for two years in a small hut I built, during which I wrote a major Transcendental work.

Identify the author: We at the North find it difficult to understand how moderate punishment can cause death. I have read several of your law-books attentively, and I find no cases of punishment for the murder of a slave, except by fines paid to the owner, to indemnify him for the loss of his property: the same as if his horse or cow had been killed. . . . If you turn to the literature of England or France, you will find your institution treated with little favor. The fact is, the whole civilized world proclaims Slavery an outlaw, and the best intellect of the age is active in hunting it down.

Body of water where Thoreau built his hut on the bank and lived for two years.

Identify title: “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that if they should resist, the remedy is worse than the evil. .  .”

Identify the author:”The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

Identify the title:”But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate–we cannot consecrate–we cannot hallow–this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.”