Question

16.1In the 1920s, Mohandas Gandhi showed the people of India how to use Henry David Thoreau’s ideas about “civil disobedience,” the nonviolent resistance of unjust laws and policies, to win their country’s independence from the British Empire. 2In 1955, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. led a bus boycott in Alabama founded on the principles of civil disobedience, which led to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. 3During that same decade, people who opposed the Vietnam War engaged in nonviolent demonstrations modeled on Thoreau’s ideas. 4Since the 1970s, adversaries of nuclear weapons and nuclear power have used civil disobedience tactics for their protests at test sites, storage facilities, government offices, and power plants. 5Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience has also influenced how activists have battled since the 1980s against the racial segregation that has divided blacks and whites in South Africa.(a) What is the topic of the reading?a. Mohandas Gandhi and Henry David Thoreaub. Henry David Thoreauc. Thoreau’s influence on acts of civil disobedienced. the civil rights movement of the 1960s

(b) If there is a topic sentence, please paraphrase it on the blanks below. If the main idea is implied, please write the implied main idea on the blanks below.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Answer 1

(a) c. Thoreau’s influence on acts of civil disobedience.
reason: Other options relate to a particular movement in history explained in different sentences of the extract. But option c states the gist of the extract.

(b) Implied main idea: Henry David Thoreau’s ideas about “civil disobedience,” the nonviolent resistance of unjust laws and policies, has influenced the civil activsts over the decades through history all over the world.
reason: Although it is partially seen in all the sentences, the idea that binds all the sentences is the fact that Henry David Thoreau’s concept of non-violent civil disobedience has influenced leaders of various movements in the annals of history.