Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to hit Mumbet’s sister with a spade(铁锹). Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Angry, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet turned to a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts laws. If the laws said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom—the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new law.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She refused and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her spirit lived on in her many generations. One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own area she had no superior or equal.”
What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?

A．She was born into a rich family.

B．She was a slaveholder.

C．She was born a slave.

D．She had a famous sister.

What did Mumbet do after the trial?

A．She founded the NAACP.

B．She went to live with her grandchildren.

C．She continued to serve the Ashleys.

D．She chose to work for a lawyer.

What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new constitution?

A．How to be a good servant.

B．How to apply for a job.

C．She should always obey her owners’ orders.

D．She should be as free and equal as whites.

What is the text mainly about?

A．A trial that shocked the whole world.

B．The life of a brave African American woman.

C．A story of a famous writer and spokesperson.

D．The friendship between a lawyer and a slave.