They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free. I pretended not to be interested in what they said, and treated them as if I did not understand them; for I feared they might be treacherous. White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters. … I nevertheless remembered their advice, and from that time I resolved to run away.

Question: In the above excerpt, which words best establish immediacy?

A) "White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape."

B) "… that I should be free."

C) "I pretended not to be interested in what they said."

D) There is no immediacy.

Explanation: Immediacy means content of the mind that require urgency. “That I should be free” from the above excerpt best establish immediacy, because the main purpose the advice was given, was because of freedom. From the time the advice was given, despite the fact that slave does not trust those who advised him because they might be doing that for their own personal interest, yet the slave had resolved to run away so as to be free again.