In the passage underlined in Section 16 of "Civil
Disobedience," what is
Thoreau's purpose?
A. to persuade the audience that the
penal system is fair and does not need to
be changed
B. to inform the audience that one can
become complacent if one does not take
action to end injustice
C. to inform the audience that jail is a
necessary evil that cannot be avoided

1)a

2 b

3 d

4 d or b

explanation:

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.