Question

Instructions:Select the correct text in the passage. Which sentence in the excerpt supports the claim that the American colonies could thrive independently from Britain?
A. I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect.
B. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.
C. But even this is admitting more than is true, for I answer roundly, that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had any thing to do with her.
D. The commerce, by which she hath enriched herself, are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.

Answer 1

The correct text that suggests the American colonies could thrive is B, as it is comparing the development of a small child to that of the colonies, implying they will grow in strength and be self-sufficient. The other answers available for this question imply that the colonies are in some way dependent upon Europe or Great-Britain.