I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. // Rainbow Part-2 Prose Chapter-4

 

I HAVE A DREAM
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Junior’s Biography

    1.       Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 and died in 1968.

    2.       He was a civil rights activist and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

    3.       He was influenced by Gandhiji and also supported non-violence.

    4.       In 1964, Martin Luther King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Prize.

    5.       He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

    6.       His important works include Strength to Love, Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, Why We Can’t Wait, Where do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? 

I HAVE A DREAM SUMMARY

“I Have a Dream” is a speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in 1963. He was born on 15 Jan. 1929. He was influenced by Gandhi Jee and also supported non-violence and got Nobel Prize in 1964.
In this speech he raised his voice against American government as American government was not in favour of them. Actually one hundred years ago, the great President of America Abraham Lincoln, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclamation freed all Negro slaves. But one hundred years later Negroes are not free. They live in ghettos and find no justice. He says that they had to live life of deported persons though they are native. He says that the Negro cannot wait any longer. The movement will continue unabated till the Negro gets justice.
 Martin Luther has a dream that one day Negroes will get freedom. He has a dream that one day all of them- black people and white people will sing together, “we are free.”

I HAVE A DREAM OBJECTIVE QUESTION

    1.      Martin Luther king was born in ___________.
a)1929
b)1918                
c)1968
d)1999

    2.      Martin Luther King died in ___________.
a)1968
b)1980                
c)1999
d)1989

    3.      Martin Luther king got the Nobel prize in ___________.
a)1962
b)1964                
c)1966
d)1976

    4.      Martin luther king delivered speech in ___________.
a)1961
b)1963                
c)1965
d)1967

    5.      Martin Luther king delivered speech in ___________.
a)Washington
b)Chicago          
c)Hyderabad
d)New York

    6.      Martin Luther was influenced by ___________.
a)Zakir
b)Gandhiji         
b)bahadur Singh
d)Nehruji

    7.      Strength to Love, The Montgomery Story is written by ___________.
a)Bertrand Russell
b)Martin Luther             
c)Germaine Greer
d)John Donne

    8.      Stride toward Freedom, Where do we go from here, Why we can’t wait, Chaos or Community is written by___________.
a)Bertrand Russell
b)Martin Luther King                   
c)Germaine Greer
d)Kamala Das

    9.      Martin Luther King Jr. belonged to ___________.
a)the USA
b)Kenya             
c)India
d)Africa

    10.  ‘I have a dream’ is a part of speech delivered by ___________.
a)Zakir Hussain
b)Martin Luther King Jr.             
c)J.L. Nehru
d)Gandhiji

    11.  The condition of the ___________ was appalling.
a)French
b)Hispanics      
c)Negroes
d)Indian

    12.  ___________ was a great orator.
a)Martin Luther King Jr.
b)Shiga Naoya 
c)Germaine Greer
d)Kamala Das

    13.  “I have a dream’ is written by ___________.
a)Shiga Naoya
b)Martin Luther King   
c)Zakir Hussain
d)Daruwala

    14.  Martin Luther King Jr. was a ___________.
a)singer
b)professor      
c)poet
d)civil right activists

    15.  ___________ advocates non-violent struggle.
a)Kamala Das
b)Pearl S.Buck
c)Martin Luther
d)Bertrand Russell

    16.  Martin Luther King Jr. loves the white ___________.
a)American
b)African           
c)Indian
d)Pakistani

    17.  Martin Luther was a ___________.
a)Indian
b)Korean           
c)Negroe
d)African

    18.  ___________ is sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression.
a)Mississippi
b)Mexico           
c)Nevada
d)Georgia

    19.  Let freedom ring from the stone mountain of ___________.
a)Georgia
b)Alps                 
c)Allas
d)Nevada

    20.  ___________ is a desert state of the USA.
a)Las Vegas
b)Mississippi    
c)Louisiana
d)None of these

    21.  Negroes are the former ___________ of America.
a)slaves
b)sweeper         
c)kings
d)none of these

    22.  Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, ___________ in Memphis.
a)1966
b)1968                
c)1970
d)1990

    23.  ___________ has given the Negroes people a bad cheque which has come back marked insufficient funds.
a)Africa
b)America         
c)France
d)India

    24.  Nobel Prize for Peace was given to Martin Luther King Jr. in ___________.
a)1964
b)1990                
c)1970
d)1989

    25.  Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech in Washington DC on August ___________.
a)25, 1963
c)28,1963          
c)12,1964
d)16, 1966

    26.  Who raised voice against American government ___________.
a)Mahatma Gandhi
b)Zakir Hussain              
b)Martin Luther King
d)Nehru

I HAVE A DREAM QUESTION ANSWER

    1.       What was Martin Luther King’s dream? Elaborate.
Ans. Martin Luther King believed in the ultimate reconciliation between the Americans and the Negroes. It was the idea of reconciliation that he expressed by reiterating his dream in various details. He had the dream of the American nation rising up and following its creed of equality in true sense. He also had the vision of complete fraternity.

    2.       ‘This is our hope’. What is the hope?
Ans. The hope is that the discrimination between the Negroes and the whites will end. Someday the sons of the former slaves and the sons of former slave-owerns will sit together like brothers.

    3.       What is their pledge?
Ans. The Negroes have made a sacred pledge to march forward and continue their struggle. They will be satisfied only when they receive justice in every field of life.

    4.       What are the ‘trials and tribulations’ the author talks about?
Ans. In their quest for justice some of the Negroes were prosecuted, beaten up by the police and sent to jail. The author is talking about these trials and tribulations.

    5.       If America is to be a great nation what must become true.
Ans. If America is to be great nation, it must be a land of freedom for all her citizens, black and white.

6.      I HAVE A DREAM LINE EXPLANATION

    1.       “We can't be satisfied as long as the Nigro’s basic
mobility is from a smaller Ghetto to a larger one.”
Ans. The given sentence has been taken from “I Have A Dream.” Here the orator Martin Luther King Jr wants some change in the life of Negros slave are leading hard life. According to him they must go to the large place from the small Ghetto.

    2.       “And as we walk, we make pledge that we shall always march ahead.”
Ans. The given sentence has been taken from “I Have A Dream” which is written by Martin Luther King Jr. He says that the pledge is to continuously march ahead towards the path of freedom, social justice and equality of civil rights for all the people of nation irrespective of their cast, colour and creed.