Writing an Argumentative Essay about a Social Topic — Unit test
Question 6 • Language Arts 7 B (M12 25/26 S2)
Which statement from "The People Could Fly” reflects the historical fact that slaveholders and overseers treated enslaved people brutally?
Answer
A
“When they sat close before the fire in the free land, they told it. They did so love firelight and Free-dom, and tellin.”
B
“And they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate. And they flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin against the blue up there.”
C
“There was a great outcryin. The bent backs straighted up. Old and young who were called slaves and could fly joined hands.”
D
“The Driver got his whip ready to curl around old Toby and tie him up. The slaveowner took his hip gun from its place.”