What does Thoreau say seems to be most wrong with society, and how much of a problem do you think those things are for us today?

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

correct answers:

c. they use panels.

d. they include images and words.

e. they contain gutters.