1. "echo by her talk contrived to detain the goddess till the nymphs made their escape. when juno [hera] discovered it, she passed sentence upon echo…."

from this passage, we can infer that the ancient greeks

a.
thought that silence is golden.

b.
valued the judgment of gods and goddesses.

c.
believed the gods were directly involved in human affairs.

d.
understood the moral but didn't literally believe their myths.

2. echo encounters hera because

a.
hera is looking for her philandering husband.

b.
hera is searching for the handsome narcissus.

c.
hera is seeking echo's secrets.

d.
hera is hunting for flowers in echo's garden.

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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