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I was born in Tuckahoe, Talbot Country, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves knows as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember having ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvesting, springtime, or falltime. A lack of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages, I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege. I was not allowed to make any inquires of my master concerning it. He considered all such inquires on the part of a slave improper and impertinent. The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old. My mother was named Harriet Bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark.
My mother was of a darker complexion than either my grandmother or grandfather.
My father was a white man. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me. My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant-before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an older woman, too old for field labor. For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it was to hinder the development of the child's affection towards its mother.
71. The author did not know exactly when he was born because ______
A. he did not know who his mother was.
B. there was no written evidence of it.
C. his master did not tell his father.
D. nobody on his farm knew anything about it.
正确答案是
72. In the mid-nineteenth century, slaves often ______
A. marked their birthdays by the season.
B. did not really care how old they were.
C. forgot the exact time when they were born.
D. pretended not to know each other's birthdays.
正确答案是
73. The author's mother told him ______
A. his father was black.
B. his father was white.
C. nothing about his father.
D. his master was his father.
正确答案是
74. According the passage, when the author was very young his mother ______
A. ran away.
B. was light-skinned
C. had several children.
D. was sent to work elsewhere.
正确答案是
75. The author had not spent much time with his ______
A. mother.
B. master.
C. grandfather.
D. grandmother.
正确答案是
76. The author was most probably raised ______
A. by his grandparents.
B. by an old woman slave.
C. with his master's support.
D. together with other children.
正确答案是
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