Letter From Birmingham Jail

Which of the following sentences from “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an example of antithesis?

• My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking.

• One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely.

• My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure

• We know through painful experience that freedom is never

  voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of the following excerpts from “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an example of an allusion?

• If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me.

• I wish you had commended the Negro sit inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation.

• But now I

  must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral

  means to preserve immoral ends.

• We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

What is the meaning of idly in the following sentence?

Savannah gazed idly out the window, neglecting the book that lay open on her knee.

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  in a lazy, passive way

• in a puzzled, confused way

• in a cheerful, happy way

• in a concentrated, fierce way

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

According to “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” why is King “so greatly disappointed with the white church and its leadership”?

• King believes that the leaders have become entirely

  absorbed in secular rather than religious concerns.

• King believes that the church has stolen and misused

  donations given by its poorest parishioners.

• King believes that the leaders have not stood up boldly in support of civil rights.

• King believes that the church has nothing relevant to offer to the youth of the 1960s.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

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CCSS.SL.9-10.3

According to “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” what is the main reason King and his followers are demonstrating and protesting in Birmingham, instead of negotiating with city leaders?

• because King is affiliated with certain organizations in

  Birmingham

• because King does not trust the white clergy to host fair negotiations

• because a significant

  political election has just taken place in Birmingham

• because Birmingham failed to keep promises made in earlier negotiations

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

Read this sentence from “Letter from Birmingham Jail”:

[T]here are two types of laws: just and unjust.

Which statement best describes the distinction King draws, in the letter, between two types of laws?

• Just laws apply to deep-seated human prejudices, while unjust laws do not.

• Just laws can realistically be enforced in actual life, while unjust laws cannot.

• Just laws are rooted in universal principles of fairness, while unjust laws are not.

• Just laws vary in harshness according to circumstances, while unjust laws do not.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.2

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

What rhetorical appeal is this quote most likely an example of?

"Let me give another example. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

What rhetorical appeal is the following quote most likely an example of?

"To put it in terms of St. Thomas Aquinas..."

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

What rhetorical device is the following quote most likely an example of?

"When you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading 'white' and 'colored'"

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

What literary term is the following quote most likely categorized as?

"Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up by must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must br exposed"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Juxtaposition

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4