I Have a Dream- Speech by MLK

The best support for the inference that African Americans will continue to revolt until they are granted their rights is...

"And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights." This supports the explanation that African Americans will continue to fight for their rights until they are granted.

The best support for the inference that the Emancipation Proclamation did not greatly improve the lives of all African Americans is...

"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." Dr. King directly states that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all African Americans.

The example of figurative language that best states what the author hopes will happen when he returns to the South after his speech?

. "... transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." Dr. King says this just after he says, "This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with."

The repetition of the phrase "Let Freedom Ring..." adds to the power of the author's message mainly by _________________.

... showing all the physical locations the speaker imagines his message being heard. Dr. King lists several areas and states throughout the United States where freedom should ring.

What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 7)? It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

African Americans will continue to revolt until they are granted their rights. Dr. King believes that this "legitimate discontent" is not temporary and that revolt will continue.

How does the speaker mainly appeal to different races of people in his speech?

He specifically mentions the white people in attendance and says "we cannot walk alone." Dr. King says that African Americans should not distrust all white people. The audience infers that it will take the will of all people to make the changes that the movement demands.

Inextricably

Impossible to separate from other things

Which inference is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 3)? But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

The Emancipation Proclamation did not greatly improve the lives of all African Americans. Dr. King begins talking about the current state of freedom for African Americans after mentioning the Emancipation Proclamation in the previous paragraph.

To what is the speaker most closely referring with the phrase withering injustice in the passage below (paragraph 2)? Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

The experience of enslaved Africans before the Emancipation Proclamation Dr. King calls slavery a "withering injustice" after he praises the Emancipation Proclamation.

Which meaning of persecution most closely matches its meaning in the following passage (paragraph 14)? I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. 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.

The word is used as a noun to mean hostile or ill treatment Dr. King uses it to refer to hostile or ill treatment at the hands of an oppressor.

Prosperity

a period of success or profitability

Legitimate

conforming to the law or to rules

Prodigious

impressively great in size

insuffucuent

not enough