Question

What does the loophole represent in the passage?

a place of relaxation

a place of concealment

a place of business

a place of learning

Answer 1

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Ann Jacobs (excerpt)

I was thankful when there came a day sufficiently mild for me to wrap myself up and sit at the loophole to watch the passers by. Southerners have the habit of stopping and talking in the streets, and I heard many conversations not intended to meet my ears. I heard slave-hunters planning how to catch some poor fugitive. Several times I heard allusions to Dr. Flint, myself, and the history of my children, who, perhaps, were playing near the gate. One would say, "I wouldn't move my little finger to catch her, as old Flint's property." Another would say, "I'll catch any sleek-feathered one for the reward. A man ought to have what belongs to him, if he is a damned brute." The opinion was often expressed that I was in the Free States. Very rarely did any one suggest that I might be in the vicinity. Had the least suspicion rested on my grandmother's house, it would have been burned to the ground. But it was the last place they thought of. Yet there was no place, where slavery existed, that could have afforded me so good a place of concealment.

Answer 2

@bingtamekia

Answer 3

a place of relaxation

Answer 4

incorrect :((

Answer 5

really what was it

Answer 6

it wont say just one of the other 3

Answer 7

oh wait
it was a place of business
sorry i just read wrapped myself

Answer 8

incorrect

Answer 9

B