Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and
women, old and young, married and single, were
ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were
horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children,
all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and
were all subjected to the same narrow examination.
Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and
matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate
inspection

Which best states the cause/effect relationship
expressed in the excerpt?

-Cause: The enslaved persons are treated
inhumanely at the examination.
Effect: Douglass makes an attempt to run away.

-Cause: All the enslaved persons are ranked together
for inspection
Effect: Douglass is separated from his family.

-Cause: Douglass witnesses the inhumane treatment
of enslaved persons.
Effect: He becomes more aware of the brutality of
slavery.

-Cause: Douglass is examined and determined to be
valuable.
Effect: He is sent back home to Baltimore.

Awell-worded thesis statement is both and generally acceptable . . broad agreeable . . limited significant . . limited significant . . broa

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

This passage contains repeated allusions to all the following except. a. sailing b. suitors c. hunting d. dreams