Read this excerpt from the people could fly. nehemiah was a one who believed that if he must be a slave, he'd best be a smart one. no one who callin himself master of nehemiah had ever been able to make him work hard for nothin. nehemiah would always have a funny lie to tell or he made some laughin remark whenever the so-called master had a question or a scoldin. which best describes how nehemiah survived being enslaved? by using his wit to charm people by using his wings to fly away by using his intelligence to gain knowledge by using his strength to overpower people