Ashby's I Have A Dream Test

Read the following sentence

Every man, woman, and child deserves equal rights.

What is the best way to revise the sentence to include parallelism for greater impact?

• Everyone deserves equal rights

• Every man, each woman, and all children deserve equal rights

• Equal rights are what every man, woman, and child deserve

• Every man, every woman, and every child deserves equal rights

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which of the following answer choices states Dr. King’s main purpose in “I Have a Dream”?

• He wants everyone in his audience to register to vote.

• He wants Americans to appreciate their heritage more.

• He wants his audience to secure civil rights for all Americans.

• He wants white Americans to apologize for the evils of slavery.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of the following sentences contains the best example of parallel structure?

• The inability of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention to act on the issue of slavery led to nearly 200 years of unrest that came to a head during the civil rights movement.

• Although John F. Kennedy was killed before much of his civil rights program was enacted, his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, fulfilled his promises of justice for African Americans.

• Baseball player Jackie Robinson, singer Marian Anderson, poet Langston Hughes, and minister Martin Luther King Jr. all played crucial roles in the fight for civil rights.

• Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of nine brave students who integrated the Little Rock school system, grew up to become an internationally known journalist.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which of the following sentences contains the best example of parallel structure?

• The 1960s saw mass social and economic protests in France, Italy, Poland, and many other places besides the United States.

• Martin Luther, the German religious leader for whom King was named, wrote the Ninety-Five Theses, founded a new church, and translated the Bible into German.

• President Lyndon Johnson's ambitious program of social reform, so important to King's fight for civil rights, was partially derailed by American involvement in the Vietnam War.

• When Branch Rickey hired Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he explained that Robinson would need courage to keep from fighting back when taunted or threatened.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What form of evidence does Dr. King use most frequently to support his claims in his speech?

• Statistics about the differences in the lives of African Americans and other Americans

• Quotations from recognized experts or authorities in the area of civil rights

• Examples and descriptions of the problems caused by racial inequality

• Anecdotes about the experiences of African Americans who suffered from discrimination

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Read the following sentence

Every man, woman, and child deserves equal rights.

What is the best way to revise the sentence to include parallelism for greater impact?

• Everyone deserves equal rights

• Every man, each woman, and all children deserve equal rights

• Equal rights are what every man, woman, and child deserve

• Every man, every woman, and every child deserves equal rights

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which statement best summarizes Martin Luther King Jr.’s central claim in the speech as a whole?

• Racial equality cannot be attained under the current American justice system.

• Efforts to deny racial equality in America are part of the past, not of the future.

• People should envision the benefits of racial equality taking place in the future

• The benefits of racial equality will occur only as the result of effort and work

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

In “I Have a Dream,” what does Dr. King mean when he says that

someday “the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be

made straight”?

• Racial discrimination and injustice will finally end.

• Judges will be chosen on the basis of their merits.

• National, state, and local elections will be run fairly.

• People who oppress others will be severely punished.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read the following excerpt from Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech:

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to

Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern

cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Which words or phrases in this passage illustrate parallelism?

• knowing that somehow

• will be changed

• go back to

• slums and ghettos

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." Based on the text above, what literary device is used?

• parallelism
• allusion
• metaphor
• personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3