Unit 3- Story 4

1Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech: I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King Jr.’s: I Have a Dream speech

Unit 3- Story 4

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Speech: I Have a Dream

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Vocabulary


A) A name of a specific Native American group of people

B) An accepted system of belief; statement of belief

C) A disloyalty to somethingD) A distrust in the system

creed


B) An accepted system of belief; statement of belief


A) To flattenB) To meetC) To cut out or carve out D) To stumble and fall

hew


C) To cut out or carve out


A) Agreements , complimentsB) Off keyed, tone-deaf C) Harmony, deal, pactD) Disagreements; arguments, disputes

discords


D) Disagreements; arguments, disputes


A) Average or smallB) A large mountainC) To get to know someone wellD) Enormous, vast, giant, massive

prodigious


D) Enormous, vast, giant, massive


A) Curving, roundedB) Straight C) To walk through the forestD) A raceway

curvaceous


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A) curving, rounded


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Comprehension


A) The people of the United States B) Martin Luther King, Jr.C) Rosa ParksD) The slaves in America

1) Whose point of view was this speech told?


B) Martin Luther King, Jr.


A) The right to have free speechB) The right for women to voteC) Equal rights for all US citizensD) To allow people to move wherever they want

2) What does MLK demand?


C) Equal rights for all US citizens


A) To be able to flatten mountains, fill in valleys, straighten roads, and everything to be smooth

B) To be able to climb any mountain or hillC) To be able to have tables for brothersD) To not be judged by the color of one’s skin,

but by the content of their character

3) What is MLK’s hope for the future?


D) To not be judged by the color of one’s skin, but by the content of their character


A) People should care about how they lookB) In a truly equal society, race will not matter,

but a person’s true qualities will determine his/her worth

C) If a person is great, they should not care what they look like

D) In an equal society, all people need to ignore each other

4) What does MLK mean when he says he dreams that his children ‘will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character’?


B) In a truly equal society, race will not matter, but a person’s true qualities will determine his/her worth


A) It means that the geography should be evenB) It means that everything is equal and fairC) It means that there shouldn’t be high or low

places in the worldD) It means nothing

5)What do the metaphors mean: ‘every valley exalted, every hill and mountain made low, the rough places made plain, and the crooked places made straight’?


B) It means that everything is equal and fair


A) These are the things that people must do together to get freedoms for all people in the USA

B) These mean that people have to do workC) People must go to jail and fill up the jailsD) People have to keep working and not do

anything for change

6)What do these actions mean: ‘we will work together, pray together, go to jail together, stand up for freedom together,…’


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A) These are the things that people must do together to get freedoms for all people in the USA


A) He only talks about the southern states and their problems

B) He mentions every state in the Union (United States of America), at that time

C) From mountain on one coast to other mountains on the other coast and ending in the South on hills and mountains, where there is so much discrimination, prejudice, and hatred

D) He doesn’t talk about the states

7)How does MLK mention the states in his ‘great nation’ explanation?


C) From mountain on one coast to other mountains on the other coast and ending in the South on hills and mountains, where there is so much discrimination, prejudice, and hatred.


A) To be up high and spread the message across the lands

B) To be on top of the worldC) To go mountain climbingD) To get people to appreciate the beauty of the

mountains

8) Why does MLK use mountains of states as metaphors to mention change?


A) To be up high and spread the message across the lands


A) He wanted to test people’s knowledge of American geography

B) He wanted to show that freedom and equality should be across all of America

C) He liked those states the bestD) Those states had the best examples of

freedom and equality, unlike the not mentioned states

9) Why does MLK mention so many places like California to New York to Alabama?


B) He wanted to show that freedom and equality should be across all of America


A) That there is so much discrimination, prejudice, and hatred by whites against people of color

B) He has to write a great speech that will get people to go and make changes

C) The price of gas and milk is very expensiveD) That people could not get jobs

10) What are the difficulties facing the people in America at the time of MLK’s speech?


A) That there is so much discrimination, prejudice, and hatred by whites against people of color


A) People need to go to school to become conductors

B) The out of tune music should be played better

C) The loud and obnoxious hatred that many people had toward people of color will change into peaceful times

D) To play better sounding music on the radio

11) What does this metaphor mean: ‘transform (change) the jangling (clattering) discords (conflicts) of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood’?


C) The loud and obnoxious hatred that many people had toward people of color will change into peaceful times


A) Right to Vote BillB) Civil Rights Bill C) Right to Hold Meeting BillsD) Bill of Rights

12) What was the name of the bill, that passed into law, ending discrimination?


B) Civil Rights Bill


A) FreeB) Equal or equalityC) Brotherhood D) Mountain

13) What word was used so often, either in text or in metaphor?


B) Equal or equality


A) It’s a pretty songB) It represented and talked about equality and

liberty for all peopleC) It rhymedD) It had a good beat

14) Why does MLK use the song, “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” in his speech


B) It represented and talked about equality and liberty for all people


A) It has to be a place of equality and freedom for all people

B) It has to be a place where people can own their own home and car

C) It has to be a place of no taxesD) It has to be a place of no mountains

15) What needs to happen in America before it can be a great nation?


A) It has to be a place of equality and freedom for all people

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