1. Which of the following best summarizes the action of this poem?
O A A woman reflects on her childhood when she was
denied the right to an education. She describes the
great risks that she and other slaves took in order to
learn.
OB A speaker, who was once a slave, describes how she
managed to escape so that she could attend school in
the North.
O C The narrator, a slave holder, describes her childhood
growing up on a plantation in the South.
D The speaker, a former slave, describes the extreme
brutality she experienced under the hand of Mr.
Turner, the slave master,