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Read these lines: "In learning to read, I owe almost as much to the bitter opposition of my master, as to the kindly aid of my mistress. I acknowledge the benefit of both." According to the quoted lines, the narrator credits his reading to
Athe steady help of one patient teacher alone
Bboth the help he received and the ban he met
Cthe schooling he got from the other children
Dthe years that he spent working near the water
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. both the help he received and the ban he met
1. The quoted lines name two debts, not one.
2. The first is the bitter opposition of his master, and the second is the kindly aid of his mistress.
3. He then says outright that he acknowledges the benefit of both.
4. Help and ban together is option B, and option A drops half of what he says he owes.
_Source: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), public domain_
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