Select two sentences in the passage that best show that Mr. Auld views education and slavery as incompatible. Very soon after I went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Auld, she very kindly commenced to teach me the A, B, C. After I had learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters. Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. Now, if you teach that [Douglass] how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.

1. Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

2. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.

Explanation:

The two sentences above show that Mr. Auld did not think that education and slavery were compatible. On learning that Frederick Douglass was now learning how to read and write from his wife, he immediately stopped her, insisting that it was not safe to teach a slave how to read and write.

He reasoned that if Douglass became literate, he would become unmanageable. He might now challenge the authority of his master and become of no use to him.

d) she is both terrified and excited by the idea of returning to school.

a) she takes one day at a time.

d) she felt like she was an object of ridicule.

d) she tells her daughter not to worry about it because things will get better.\

b) elnora needs money for books and out-of-town tuition. she will raise the money herself.

16.) true

17.) true

18.) no information in the text

19.) false

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