"john's mother and sister had been fighting for several years, so john didn't have much hope that they would during this year." a) somberly . . argue b) amicably . . continue c) heroically . . repair d) relentlessly . . reconcile

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

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Grammar: sequence of verp tenses quiz active the is used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive