Question

passage to freedom
byering writing by i niss phillips
1 on may 13, 1862, two sailors, charlemain lucas, noah cannon, the union noncommissioned of the uss crusader was about to
give the order to fire on a small confederate steamship heading its way. then he noticed a white flag of surrender on the
steamer’s boiler. the confederate boat was an unarmed african american named robert smalls, who was attempting to escape by
seizing the confederate ship.
2 smalls was born into slavery on april 5, 1839, in beaufort, south carolina. by the time he was 12 years old, his master began to
let his act as a servant, first in charleston. smalls eventually worked as a deckhand, learning how to trade tools and paint ships.
he was taught how to read nautical maps. one time, his favorite as a boatman sailor and navigator. he could steer any ship
through various waterways without missing any rocks.
3 in 1861, smalls was working on a 120-foot steamboat called the planter. the planter for smuggling had been turned into a
confederate troop boat, and mainly protected. it was the fastest vessel in the harbor and, in fact, was the most important ship in
the south carolina.
4 sometime 1862, the southern army had been from sumter, a large defensive lined but of the troops of charleston harbor.
beyond the harbor was a blockade of northern ships. smalls and his wife, hannah, dreamed of escaping from slavery and raising
their two children in freedom. smalls believed that he and his family might be free if they could reach it to the blockade.
5 in the early, morning hours of may 13, the planter’s three white officers left the ship to spend the night ashore. leaving the
command, smalls and the majority of the other enslaved crewmembers, set an escape plan in motion. they decided to sneak the
ship, and then, against their kidnapping until morning, they would blow a lot to avoid capture.
6 the same time after the men’s families and the all of smalls, five joined up his family and the families of the other crewmembers from a
hiding place. this was was her mother, and three children aboard, the planter headed toward the mouth of the harbor.
read the excerpt from paragraph 3 of the menagerie
mrs. blake, travis thought. not if i can get us off word to prison. he
answered in spite of the king silence he knew to protect his
awns from her wings
the imagery of travis’s answering helps the reader...
a see how frightened travis is
b recognize how pa has failed his son
c realize how serious a bear attack can be
d understand how the situation affects his plan

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the imagery of Travis's suffering. The question is about how the imagery helps the reader. Option C talks about realizing how serious a boat mutiny can be, which aligns with the context of the passage (about a mutiny on a ship). Option A is about frightening Travis, but the imagery is more about conveying the seriousness of the mutiny. Option B is about Travis feeling he failed, which isn't supported. Option D is about the situation affecting the plot, but the imagery's main role here is to show the seriousness of the mutiny.

Answer:

C. realize how serious a boat mutiny can be