Read from excerpt from text: I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it
effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man a
musket to shoot one with the dollar is innocent - but I am concerned to trace the
effects of my allegiance.

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from this excerpt?

Thoreau does not care what the government does with his tax money once he has paid it.

Thoreau wants the government to know it does not have his support to carry out actions he
feels are unjust or immoral.

Thoreau believes that he can tell the government exactly how he wants his tax money to be
spent.

Thoreau has not paid taxes for a number of years and is thinking of leaving the country to
give his allegiance to another.

What reasons does the speaker provide to support his viewpoint or claim in what to the slave is the fourth of july i read to speech and but i just don't fully understand the question i just want to make sure i get it right so to explain that the question is asking me to do. and you!

What are themes in exhalation by ted chiang

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive