Question 1(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)

These lines from Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address seek to most clearly define which idea?

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet free from the bonds of injustice; they are not yet free from social and economic oppression. And this nation for all its hopes and all its boasts will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

injustice A
economics B
freedom C
nationality D

Question 2(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)

"This is not a sectional issue. Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. Nor is this a partisan issue. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics."

In this excerpt from President Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address the phrase "rising tide of discontent" most likely refers to:

a sectional issue A
difficulties over segregation and discrimination B
every State of the Union C
a time of domestic crisis D

Question 3(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)

In this excerpt from President Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address, he included the examples of President Lincoln's efforts to end slavery and social and economic oppression for what purpose?

"One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."

to revise the definition of freedom A
to explain the bonds of injustice B
to explain the rights of heirs and grandsons C
to explain the passage of time D

Question 4 (Essay Worth 10 points)

In a paragraph of seven to ten sentences, answer the following questions in relation to this passage from John F. Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address: What notion does Kennedy seek to reinvent in this passage? Why is it necessary for this notion to change? What long-term result does Kennedy expect to see through the reinventing of this notion?

"One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is the land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?"