Clt Practice Test & Exam Prep

Read this passage adapted from Frederick Douglass's *Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass* (1845): "I have been frequently asked, when a slave, if I had a kind master, and do not remember ever to have given a negative answer; nor does he deserve such an answer as that. He was cruel, but I forbear to expose him. There is a great difference between a slave's talking about his master at home, and talking about him before a northern audience. The one is talking in the presence of a spy, the other in the presence of a sympathizer. Moreover, I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He that is made to feel that it is improper for him to ask or to contemplate spiritual things is already half enslaved." Douglass argues that mental and spiritual oppression is