Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.After that, when I met with any boy who I knew could write, I would tell him I could write as well as he. The next word would be, "I don't believe you. Let me see you try it." I would then make the letters which I had been so fortunate as to learn, and ask him to beat that. In this way I got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible I should never have gotten in any other way.
Answer
A
to teach others how to write
B
to argue that he could write as well as other kids
C
to explain how he learned to write
D
to entertain with a story from childhood
Explanation
Douglass describes a specific strategy he used to practice writing: he challenged boys who could write, showed them the letters he knew, and asked them to do better. He says this helped him get many writing lessons. The passage’s main purpose is therefore to explain how he learned to write, not simply to argue that he could write as well as other children.
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