Please help me 1. Which phrase best describes Douglass's purpose for including this particular experience in the narrative of his life?

a. to show that not all slaveholders are cruel

b. to emphasize the importance of teaching free people to read

c. to demonstrate that not all enslaved people hated white people

d. to explain why and how he learned to read

2. Which quotation best develops the concept that education is extremely beneficial?

a. "From that moment, I understood the pathway to freedom."

b. "A slave should know nothing but to obey his master- to do as he is told to do."

c. "With their kindly aid, obtained at different times and in different places, I finally succeeded in learning to read."

d. "This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge."