Question 8 • LPA - AP English Language and Composition A - Davidson
Which of the following excerpts from the passage best supports the author’s claim that his education led to his discontentment?
Answer
A
"I was now about twelve years old, and the thought of being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon my heart. Just about this time, I got hold of a book entitled ‘The Columbian Orator.'"
B
"They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance."
C
"I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery."
D
"It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out."