Discuss one of thoreaus works

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1. Which of the following Greek terms can be translated as circle?

Kyklos

Labrys

Areté

Tholos

Question 2.2. Who was the Roman rhetorician who recognized the power of the Latin language to communicate with the people?

Cicero

Virgil

Horace

Ovid

Question 3.3. Which of the following terms refers to an almond-shaped oval of light signifying divinity, imported from the Far East through Byzantium and commonly used by Romanesque artists?

Tympanum

Mandorla

Trumeau

Voussoir

Question 4.4. Which of the following was considered the most pre-eminent Italian city-state in the 15th century?

Naples

Rome

Pisa

Florence

Question 5.5. Who was known as the Sun King?

Charles II

Louis XIV

Henry IV

James I

Question 6.6. Who is the author of Essay on Human Understanding, which contends that people are perfectly capable of governing themselves?

Thomas Hobbes

Jonathan Swift

John Locke

John Milton

Question 7.7. Who served as captain of the Endeavor as it sailed for the South Pacific in 1768?

Benjamin West

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

Francis Parkinson

James Cook

Question 8.8. Which of the following authors is most closely associated with Lambert Strether, a key character in The Ambassadors?

Henry James

Walt Whitman

Kate Chopin

Emily Dickinson

Question 9. Which of the following paintings is considered something of a rebuttal to Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?

Dance II

Joy of Life

Houses at l'Estaque

Violin and Palette

Question 10. Which of the following led the forces that defeated the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (that continued from 1936 to 1939), and then ruled Spain in a totalitarian manner until 1975?

General Francisco Franco

Joseph Goebbels

Leon Trotsky

Benito Mussolini

Question 11.Discuss at least three ways in which Henry David Thoreau proved himself a nonconformist. Also, discuss one of Thoreau's works and how it reflects his nonconformist attitude

Question 12.Based on your hearing or reading of The Outside by Susan Glaspell, explain how the playwright uses the male characters of the play to reveal feminist themes. How do these men further Glaspell's feminist message?

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