Read the paragraphs provided and select a word that presents a similar/symbolic meaning to the give word. Nor did we wait for hard work and thrift to pay off in shining success as the *American Dream* promised, we knew better then that, too.

The term American Dream is best symbolized by the word...
a. thrift
b. shining success
c. promise
d. better

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?

Did franklin achieve the virtues of humility?

Based on this work of satire, what is most likely the authors opinion?