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QuizMultiple Choice

Comparing Authors’ Purposes

Question 9 • ELPGEQ3 M/J Language Arts 1 - 1001010 HCPS v24

Read the passage from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.I should not have cared for this, if we had been out of sight of the town; but until there were miles of water between us and our enemies, we were filled with constant apprehension that the constables would come on board. Neither could I feel quite at ease with the captain and his men. I was an entire stranger to that class of people, and I had heard that sailors were rough, and sometimes cruel. We were so completely in their power, that if they were bad men, our situation would be dreadful.

Answer
A
The men might not be trustworthy.
B
The men are unskilled at their jobs.
C
The men are unfriendly to strangers.
D
The men might be unwilling to help.
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