Question

Which of the following qualities did Henry David Thoreau urge in his readers, as demonstrated by the statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?

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a. Stubbornness
b. Individuality
c. Expressiveness
d. Musicality

Answer 1

Individuality

Step-by-step explanation:

Individuality is the attributes of a certain person or thing that separates them from others of the same class, mostly when strongly marked.

To explain this, let's consider a usual idiomatic statement in English:

"He/she marches to the beat of a different drummer."

We use the idiomatic statement to describe someone who happens to be unique from the crowd, thou a bit odd or eccentric, or who acts in an unpredictable and different ways.

Lets rephrase it this way, "in situations where people march along to the beat of a drummer, an individual could be hearing a separate drum-beat, because he or she is marching in a total different rhythm.

The sentence is a variation of that expression speaking of individuality.