<span>The correct answer is the third option: if allowed to continue, tax evasion was a serious offense. Tax evasion means not paying your taxes, which, during Thoreau's time, resulted in going to jail. This punishment reflects the idea that tax evasion is a serious offense and that offenders should be treated as criminals. Despite these consequences, Thoreau used tax evasion as a form of civil disobedience. For example, he refused to pay his poll tax during the Mexican War as a way to protest the slavery that was still occurring in the United States. Due to his tax evasion, he went to jail until the poll tax was paid.</span>
Walter got accepted to Stuyvesant High School.
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The correct answer of the given question above would be the third option: RURAL MARYLAND, DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. From the context of the story, the setting of "Marigolds" is during the great depression in rural Maryland. "Marigolds" introduces the theme of poverty. This is written in 1969 by Eugenia Collier.
