How does this opening section develop the central idea of the passage?
It describes Douglass's relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Auld and introduces the central idea: Douglass's resentment of Mr. and Mrs. Auld.
It explains how Douglass comes to understand that white people take advantage of ignorance to keep black people enslaved.
It shows the mean-spirited attitude of Mr. Auld and sets the stage for the central idea: the cruelty of white slaveholders.
It shows that Douglass is a quick learner and sets the stage for the passage's exploration of how Douglass learns to read.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Which of the following characters from a midsummer night's dream is used as an allusion to earlier english poetry

In keats's "ode to a nightingale," to which of the following methods does keats not turn in his attempt to reconnect imaginatively with the "melodious bird"? - poetry - white wine - opium - sparkling red wine