Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question Twelves Years a Slave Excerpt by Solomon Northup While living at the United States Hotel I frequently met with slaves who had accompanied their masters from the South They were always well dressed and well provided for leading apparently an easy life with but few of its ordinary troubles to perplex them Many times they entered into conversation with me on the subject of Slavery Almost uniformly I found they cherished a secret desire for liberty Some of them expressed the most ardent anxiety to escape and consulted me on the best method of effecting it The fear of punishment however which they knew was certain to attend their re capture and return in all cases proved sufficient to deter them from the experiment Having all my life breathed the free air of the North and conscious that I possessed the same feelings and affections that find a place in the white man s breast conscious moreover of an intelligence equal to that of some men at least with a fairer skin I was too ignorant perhaps too independent to conceive how any one could be content to live in the abject condition of a slave I could not comprehend the justice of that law or that religion which upholds or recognizes the principle of Slavery and never once I am proud to say did I fail to counsel any one who came to me to watch his opportunity and strike for freedom 31 Which phrase from the excerpt suggests the narrator cannot fulling understand what slaves experience A Some of them expressed the most ardent anxiety to escape and consulted me on the best method of effecting it B The fear of punishment however which they knew was certain to attend their re capture and return in all cases proved sufficient to deter them from the experiment Having all my life breathed the free air of the North and conscious that I possessed the same feelings and affections that find a place in the white man s breast conscious moreover of an intelligence equal to that of some men at least with a fairer skin I was too ignorant perhaps too independent to conceive how any one could be content to live in the abject condition of a slave 32 What does the excerpt reveal about the narrator He is willing to help no matter what the risk B He has always lived a life of true freedom He believes some slaves are happy and treated well He soos