Lives of Commitment: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Unit test
Question 9 of 15 • CA-Expository Reading and Writing B
Read this excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.Unfortunately, the discovery was almost always made on a Sunday. Thus a whole day was lost before the machinery of pursuit could be set in motion. The posters offering rewards for the fugitives could not be printed until Monday. The men who made a living hunting for runaway slaves were out of reach, off in the woods with their dogs and their guns, in pursuit of four-footed game, or they were in camp meetings saying their prayers with their wives and families beside them.
Answer
A
Safe houses on the Underground Railroad operate only on Sundays, when everyone else is working.
B
Such activities as attending church are common on Sundays, so people are less likely to notice they are missing.
C
Men looking for escaped enslaved people do not work on Sundays, so Tubman’s group has more lead time before people starts looking for them.
D
Tubman and her group know exactly where men looking for escaped enslaved people are on Sundays, so they know how to avoid them.