Im going with the one that say a, if its wrong ill tell you the right answer, bc im currently doing the test rn :)
He was born February 22, 1732
The sentence had repetitive words replaced with synonyms and pronouns. "but my father disliked..." is too much alike to "my father disliked" so it would get tedious and harder to read.
They replaced it with "but he hated ... " to get some variation.
B. A slave, like anyone else , can learn to read
