Read these lines: "These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an entirely new train of thought. It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain. I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty, the white man's power to enslave the black man. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom." What did the narrator conclude from hearing the ban on his lessons?

1. The words that sank deep are the ban itself, spoken to explain why he must not be taught. 2. The quoted lines call the effect a revelation that explained what had puzzled him, the power of one man to enslave another. 3. The last sentence names what he saw: from that moment he understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. 4. Since the thing forbidden was reading, the road he now sees runs through reading, option D. 5. Option B inverts the danger, putting it on the learner rather than on the system that forbids him. 6. Option A treats the ban as a comment on the lessons themselves, which it is not. 7. Option C predicts a move that the quoted lines never raise. _Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), public domain_