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"Pompey, how do I look?" "Mighty massa, mighty." "What do you mean mighty, Pompey?" "Why massa you look noble." "What do you mean by 'noble'?" "Why you look just like one lion." "Now Pompey, where have you ever seen a lion?" "I saw one down in yonder field the other day." "Pompey, you foolish fellow, that was a jackass." "Was it massa? Well, you look just like him." Who would be most likely to have related this dialogue to whom?

SAT · US History · previous-year question

  1. A.A slaveholder to his son
  2. B.A white overseer to his son
  3. C.A slave mother to her son
  4. D.A Confederate schoolboy to his friends
  5. E.A white overseer to another white overseer

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