Close Read: Analyze the Text Identify the choice that best answers the question. The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Part A In his Fourth of July speech, Douglass imagines someone in the audience who believes he should "argue" and "persuade" more and criticize less in order to serve his cause more effectively. Which answer choice best summarizes Douglass's response to this individual? A. He adjusts his language and his argument and decides to speak more persuasively. B. He claims that the reasons to oppose slavery are so obvious that no argument is needed. C. He states that slaveholders are too stubborn to be persuaded by his arguments. D. He claims that the Declaration of Independence and the Bible present the best arguments against slavery. Part B Which passage from the speech best supports the answer to Part A? A. . . . and yet not one word shall escape me that any man . . . who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just. B. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty . . . were inhuman mockery. . . . C. But, I submit, where all is plain, there is nothing to be argued. D. . . . I will, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible . . . dare to call in question and to denounce . . . everything that serves to perpetuate slavery