Select the correct answer.
Read the passage from Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Use context clues to determine what the word interposed means.
When her master saw her, he said, 'Well, bell, so you've run away from me.' 'No, I did not run away; I walked away by day-light,
you had promised me a year of my time.' His reply was, 'You must go back with me.' Her decisive answer was, 'No, I won't go ba
said, 'Well, I shall take the child." This also was as stoutly negatived.
Mr. Isaac S. Van Wagener then interposed, saying, he had never been in the practice of buying and selling slaves; he did not be
but, rather than have Isabella taken back by force, he would buy her services for the balance of the year-for which her master ch
dollars, and five in addition for the child.
○ A. departed
B.
interrupted
C.
intimidated
OD. promised
○ E. purchased