The passage as a whole can best be described as doing which of the following?A) Explaining Douglass’ emergence as a major figure in the movement to abolish slavery
B) Tracing the origins of Douglass’ thought in nineteenth-century romanticism, idealism, and liberal humanism
C) Analyzing Douglass’ speeches and writings from a modern, pluralist perspective
D) Criticizing Martin for failing to stress the contradiction between Douglass’ principles and the liberal Victorian attitudes of his day
E) Formulating a response to those who consider Douglass’ political philosophy to be archaic and irrelevant
It can be inferred that the “present-day intellectuals” (line 12) believe thatA) although Douglass used democratic-capitalist ideas to attack slavery and racial inequality, he did not sincerely believe in those ideas
B) the view that Douglass was representative of the intellectual trends of his time is obsolete
C) Douglass’ opposition to the doctrine of innate racial inequality is irrelevant to current concerns
D) Douglass’ commitment to Black equality does not adequately account for his naïve attachment to quaint liberal Victorian political views
E) Douglass’ goal of ultimately doing away with all racial and ethnic differences is neither achievable nor desirable
According to the passage, Douglass used which of the following as evidence against the doctrine of innate racial inequality?A) His own life story
B) His vision of a composite American nationality
C) The hypocrisy of self-professed liberal idealists
D ) The inevitability of the emancipation of African Americans
E) The fact that most prominent intellectuals advocated the abolition of slavery
Each of the following is mentioned in the passage as an element of Douglass’ ideology EXCEPTA) idealism
B) egalitarianism
C) capitalism
D) pluralism
E) humanism