Question

I. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow ( 15 Marks )

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest

demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. 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. 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.

1. Whom does the speaker address to?

2. What discrimination is mentioned in this speech?

3. Where were the blacks kept as slave?

4. What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

5. What do you infer from the speech?

6. What do you understand from the statement “the Negro….finds himself an exile

in his own land.”?

7. Give synonym: (i) Captivity, (ii) Emancipation

8. Give antonym: (i) Crippled, (ii) Proclamation

9. Say whether the given statement is true or false

(i) Even after one hundred years later, the life of the Negro is in bad shape.

(ii) The black people were freed and their lives are equal to the white people. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 : adress is a lonely island

True or false

true : even after one hundred years later, the life of the negro is in bad shape

false : the black people were freed and their lives are equal to the white people