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30 POINTS The passage below is from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. Read the passage and look for clues that reveal the author's attitude. Then, answer the question that follows. Passage I lived in the family of Master Hugh, at Baltimore, seven years, during which time—as the almanac makers say of the weather—my condition was variable. The most interesting feature of my history here, was my learning to read and write, under somewhat marked disadvantages. In attaining this knowledge, I was compelled to resort to indirections by no means congenial to my nature, and which were really humiliating to me. Based on this passage, the author's attitude toward his experience can best be described as:

A. regret over a misfortune

B. amusement over his childlike innocence

C. resentment over how he was treated

D. amazement that he survived

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