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I understand that my entire face must be visible in the camera for the duration of the exam.

Identify the speaker: “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.”

Identify the title:       “Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. They regard such children as property, as marketable as the pigs on the plantation; and it is seldom that they do not make them aware of this by passing them into the slave trader’s hands as soon as possible, and thus getting them out of their sight. I am glad to say there are some honorable exceptions.       I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a ‘parental relation;’ and their request was granted. These husbands blushed before the superior nobleness of their wives’ natures.”

Identify the speaker: “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth,–certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

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.