<span>The sentence in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich that suggests that Ivan Ilyich and his wife couldn’t even agree on how to raise their children is the penultimate one - </span><span>Ivan Ilyich wanted to put him in the School of Law, but to spite him Praskovya Fedorovna entered him at the High School.
It shows that they disagreed on where their children should be educated.
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Answer:
The statement that best describes Thoreau's views on petitioning the government to effect change might be this one: "government should be based on conscience and that citizens should cease associating with an unjust government.