Read the sentences that describe Douglass's reaction to Hugh Auld's forbidding Sophia to teach Douglass to read.

"It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, . . . . I now understood . . . the white man's power to enslave the black man. . . . From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom."

What mood does this description of the "revelation" create?

Aa mood of troubled doubt

Ba mood of defiance and anger

Ca mood of clarity and purpose

Da mood of joyful merriment