WorksheetsOpen Note Quiz on King's Speech
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
Which quotation from the passage best expresses the overall thesis of King’s speech?
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.
As if the weight of such a commitment to the life and health of America were not enough, another burden of responsibility was placed upon me in 1964.
We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Read this quotation from paragraph 7.
Now it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America
today can ignore the present war.
King uses forceful language to —
Make sure the audience is on board with his arguments before he continues
explain his stance to the audience on the negative aspects of the Vietnam war
convince the audience that his point of view is divisive
force himself to examine his own beliefs about the Vietnam war
what does the word sonship mean in paragraph 10?
The journey of a son.
The state of being a son.
A son winning something
Something similar to a son
They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers
roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals with at least
twenty casualties from American firepower for one Vietcong-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million
of them, mostly children. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without
clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals.
How does King’s diction and repetitive sentence structure contribute to the tone?
It gives the audience a sense of the difficult situation of the Vietnamese people and creates discouraged a tone.
It convinces the audience of the imperial power of the United States and creates a superior tone.
It presents the audience with a factual account of the Vietnam War and creates a balanced tone.
It reminds the audience of the similar issues the United States faces at home and creates a supportive tone.
According to King, who did the Vietnamese consider the real enemy?
Themselves
The French
Us
Peasants and landlords
Which of the following are evidence King uses to say that the War is an enemy of the poor.
While they both may have justifiable reasons to be suspicious of the good faith of the United States, life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that conflicts are never resolved without trustful give and take on both sides.
Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program (The Poverty Program) broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war.
It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands
to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to
the rest of the population.
We were convinced that we could not limit our vision to certain
rights for black people, but instead affirmed the conviction
that America would never be free or saved from itself until
the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the
shackles they still wear.
What rhetorical strategy does King use throughout the passage to stress the importance of his message?
Allusion
Repetition
Hyperbole
Sarcasm
The reader can infer that the author’s (King’s)purpose was to
Entertain
Persuade
Inform
Predict
Make the following sentence parallel.
“The vineyards of Napa Valley are at once breathlessly vibrant, symmetrical, and the green is profound.”
and its green is quite profound.
and so profound green.
and the green is profound.
and profoundly green.
Make the following sentence parallel.
“Writing an additional sentence for each paragraph you have is easier than the writing of a brand new paragraph altogether.”
one's writing of
Writing
the writing of
when you must write
