7. How does the story of the prince in paragraph 6 contribute to the development of ideas in the passage?
A. The story supports Thoreau's idea that one can see the
"reality" of things when one looks past superficial
circumstances.
B. The story supports Thoreau's argument that
superficial titles are just distractions and have nothing
to do with who a person really is.
C. Thoreau praises the story because the prince's
childhood of living in the forest shows how going to the
woods in order to "live deliberately" can be beneficial.
D. Thoreau uses the story to argue that what one thinks
to be the truth can actually be false, and so there is no
such thing as "reality."