Read the first paragraph of "economy" from walden.
when i wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, i lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a
house which i had built myself, on the shore of walden pond, in concord, massachusetts, and earned my living by the
labor of my hands only. i lived there two years and two months. at present i am a sojourner in civilized life again.
which best describes how this paragraph relates to the rest of "economy"?
it compares and contrasts the author's beliefs about nature with civilized society's views of nature
it compares and contrasts civilized life with the author's solitary time in the woods.
it provides context for the rest of the excerpt by noting that the author no longer agrees with what he wrote.
it provides context for the rest of the excerpt by explaining when and where the author wrote it.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt