Instructions
Read the question carefully and select the best answer.
Which of these inferences about Thoreau's opinion of monuments and grand structures is best supported by the following passage (p. 58)?
As for the religion and love of art of the builders, it is much the same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United.
States Bank. It costs more then it comes to. The meinspring is venity, assisted by the love of garlic and bread and butter. Mr. Balcom, a promising
young architect, designs it on the back of his Vitruvius, with hard pencil and ruler, and the job is let out to Dobson & Sons, stonecutters. When the
thirty centuries begin to look down on it, mankind begin to look up et it. As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in
this town who undertook to dig through to Chine, and he got so far thet, es he seld, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rottle; but I think that I
shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he mede. Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East-to know
hove such trifling. But to proceed with my
who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those deys did not build them,-who were
A Thoreau is interested in knowing the history of Impressive bullidings of both ancient and contemporary eras
D. Thoreau is more impressed by the ancient monuments of Egypt and China than by contemporary American buildings.
OC Thoreau is not interested in monuments
Thoreau wants to meet the man who tried to dig his way to China