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Making Inferences in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Question 8 of 10 • CA-Expository Reading and Writing B

Read this excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.I used to talk this matter of slavery over with them. I would sometimes say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men. "You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?" These words used to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console me with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free.

Answer
A
They are annoyed by his thought-provoking question.
B
They hope he will learn to be happy, no matter what happens.
C
They are convinced that he should remain enslaved.
D
They wish his fate could be as favorable as their own.
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