Answer Choice B

Started by sarahxxkesler · started 2018-05-21 14:38 · last activity 2018-05-22 02:19 · 1 reply

Could you explain why answer choice B is incorrect and why E is the correct answer? Thank you!

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  1. Mehran · 2018-05-22 02:19

    Hi @sarhaxxkesler, thanks for your post. Answer choice (E) is textually supported - the passage does discuss how Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" was known to King (lines 17-20) and states that King himself acknowledged that Thoreau's essay was "his first intellectual contact with the theory of passive resistance" (lines 6-9). Answer choice (B) is not textually supported - indeed, the passage says the opposite (noting that Thoreau's essay "was the only example of transcendentalist writing with which King was familiar" - lines 17-20). Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

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