7. Paragraphs 6-8 detail Thoreau's disgust with nineteenth century consumerism and communication. In an essay that compares our modern society to the past, which of these quotes
with Thoreau would you use as evidence that society has only grown MORE dependent on
unnecessary things? (Circle all that apply.)
A. “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any
permanent and absolute existence,
B. "Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men,"
C. "To a philosopher all news as it is called, is gossip,
D. "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"
E. "I could easily do without the post office"
F. "Our life is frittered away by detail."
G. "Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous."
H."... instead of a hundred dishes, five, and reduce other things in proportion.

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Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.