"A Lincoln Preface" and "I Have A Dream"

MLK: Which metaphor illustrates the broken promises to “her citizens of color”

• a check has come back marked "insufficient funds"

• a dark well with a bottomless bucket tied to a frayed rope

• crossroads in a dark forest

• recurrent nightmare

MLK: Which allusion used to introduce the historical significance of the speech that also adds credibility to his speech?

• "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

• "a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today"

• "sit down together at the table of brotherhood"

• "the tranquilizing drug of gradualism"

MLK: King uses the metaphor_______________ to say that it is important that we take action now as it has been too long for change to come.

• "quicksands of racial injustice"

• "lonely island of poverty"

• "tranquilizing drug of gradualism"

• "palace of justice"

MLK: King references the Emancipation Proclamation and Constitution

• allusion

• metaphor

• audience

• purpose

MLK: What IS King's dream?

• equality

• wealth

• injustice

• faith

MLK: Which of the following is NOT part of King's vision of the future?

• black and white children joining hands

• a symphony of brotherhood

• to work together

• police brutality

MLK: Where was the speech given?

• at the White House

• Lincoln Memorial in Washington

• In North Carolina

• Atlanta, Ga

MLK: Other than "I have a dream", what other phrase does he repeat?

• Let there be peace

• Let us all come together

• Let joy abound

• Let freedom ring

MLK: Other than a Civil Rights leader, what was his profession?

• a teacher

• a lawyer

• a preacher

• a Congressman

MLK: Finish this sentence: We hold these truths to be self-evident....

• that we should sit together at the table of brotherhood.

• that all men are created equal.

• that all men and women should be treated equally.

• that the glory of the lord shall be revealed.