This question is missing the excerpt. I found it online. It is the following:
Jim went on back to the plantation. He found the slave owner, and he says, "Mas, I wanter tell you about this cooter down there at the pond." "Well, what about it?" said the slaveowner. "Mas," says Jim, "that cooter can talk. And he don't just talk. He taken out his fiddle and he play on it, pretty as you please." "Oh, get out!" said the slaveowner. "You know that's not true!" "Tis too true," said Jim, as calm as he could, "He speak to me and play and sing for me every day now." The slaveowner had to laugh. "Well, then, Jim," he said, "if it's true, I'll give you your freedom. But if it's not true, I'm going to give you the worst whippin you ever had in your life."
Answer:
The details in the excerpt show readers that the slaveowner thinks that Jim is:
A. trying to trick him.
Step-by-step explanation:
The excerpt we are analyzing here was taken from "The People Could Fly", a collection of folktales by Virginia Hamilton.
Slaveowners did not go around freeing slaves. They saw slaves as their possessions, and did everything in their power to prevent a slave from escaping. The fact that the slaveowner promises Jim to give him his freedom in case what he is saying is true shows that the slaveowner is not taking Jim seriously. He thinks Jim is trying to fool him by lying to him. And, because he believes that, he promises a freedom he does think he will have to give.That is the main detail that supports our choosing letter A. Besides that, there is also the fact that the slave owner laughs at Jim, but not in an ironic or mean way. He laughs because he finds the story funny.