"I Have a Dream" Comprehension

The main focus of King's speech is on

• Celebrating the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

• Convincing everyone to live in peace and tranquillity

• Ending segregation and racial injustice in America

• Getting more money for America's black population

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King's "I Have a Dream" speech appeals mainly to listeners'

• Common sense

• Sense of guilt

• Desire for a better future

• Concerns about America's status among world nations

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In “I Have a Dream,” Martin Luther King, Jr. urges his followers to

• Work toward gradual change

• Demand justice now

• Use any means necessary

• Distrust white people

Which repeated phrase in King's speech has additional power because it is from a familiar patriotic song?

• "I have a dream"

• "One hundred years later"

• "Now is the time"

• "Let freedom ring"

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Words in context: A legitimate concern is

• reasonable

• false

• questionable

• legal

Words in context: If people have a reconciliation, they return to a state of being:

• Friends

• Enemies

• Prisoners

• Soldiers

A man who seeks social mobility wants to

• Convince others

• Buy a house

• Go to a different place

• Improve his situation

According to King, the founders who signed the Constitution wrote African Americans a "bad check". This means:

• It is a metaphor meaning they did not honour their obligation

• They did not give African American's enough money

• It was a cross against their name

• The cheque was torn

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When did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech? 

• during the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• during a rally in Birmingham, Alabama
• at a protest in Memphis, Tennessee
• at the March on Washington in 1963

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Languish

• to decline morally

• to fail to keep a promise to repay a loan

• to suffer from being forced to stay in an unpleasant situation

• unhappy; lonely

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