ASSIGNMENT 2 UNIT 2: HOPE AND ASPIRATION
2.1: I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Key points:
1. Martin Luther King fought for the rights of the black people in the United states of America .
2. This was a momentous speech that paved the way for the Negros to have their rights.
3. Negros were deprived of basic human rights.
4. He dreamt of freedom, equality and justice for black Americans and motivated them to stand for their due rights of citizenship.
Encircle the correct option. CUTTING AND DELETING IS NOT ALLOWED.
1) Emancipation proclamation came ……to millions of Negro slaves.
(A) as a beacon light of hope
(B) as a beacon light of joy
(C) to end long night of captivity
(D) to end indiscrimination
2) It is obvious today that America has……………on his promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned
(A) violated
(B) evaded
(C) defaulted
(D) failed
3) In the process of gaining rightful place, black Americans
(A) must be guilty of wrongful deeds
(B) mustdrink from cup of bitterness
(C) must not meet physical force with soul force
(D) must not indulge into physical violence
4) Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horror of police…………
(A) ruthlessness
(B) cruelty
(C) brutality
(D) atrocity
5) He said, ‘Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South……, knowing that somehow this situation can and will change .
(A) Georgia
(B) Louisiana
(C) New York
(D) Carolina
6) I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of ………….,will be transformed into situation where there will be no discrimination.
(A) intervention and interposition
(B) intervention and nullification
(C) interposition and nullification
(D) interposition and negation
7) The state of Mississippi is a……….state.
(A) hilly
(B) plain
(C) desert
(D) deserted
8) My country it is of thee,…………..
A) Sweet land of liberty.
(B) Land of the pilgrim’s pride
(C) Sweet land of justice
(D) Land where my fathers died
CHOOSE THE CORRECT SYNONYM:-
1. Alleghenies
(A) Allegorical
(B) Pennsylvania
(C) Hamlet
(D) Mountains
2. Discord
(A) Discontent.
(B) Conflict
(C) Conquer
(D) Biased
3. Appalling
(A) Opposing
(B) Imposing
(C) Shocking
(D) Essential
4. Ghetto
(A) Barren
(B) Deprived
(C) Poor
(D) Slums
5. Gentile
(A) Jews
(B) Budhists
(C) Gentlemen
(D) Christians
6. Hamlet
(A) Small Village
(B) Populated
(C) Small City
(D) None Of These
7. Manacles
(A) Fetters
(B) Frighten
(C) Mandate
(D) Massive
8. Pivotal
(A) Crucial.
(B) Central
(C) Focal
(D) All Of These
9. Seismic
(A) Relating To Earth Tremors
(B) Relating To Astronomy
(C) Relating To System
(D) None Of These
10. Languish
(A) Lose Values
(B) Lose Freshness
(C) Lose Vigour
(D) Lose Respect
2.2 Glory And Hope by Nelson Mandela
Key points:
1. A speech by Nelson Mandela, first black President of South Africa.
2. Awarded noble peace prize for his long effort to dismantle the country’s apartheid system.
3. His inaugural speech as the first president.
4. The people of South Africa felt fulfilled that humanity had taken them back into its bosom.
5. He deeply appreciated the role of people, women, youth, leaders, security forces in securing the first democratic government.
6. Nelson Mandela achieved political emancipation and liberated the people from the bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Encircle the correct option. CUTTING AND DELETING IS NOT ALLOWED.
1) As a result of Nelson Mandela’s peaceful movement against the apartheid system……....
(A) He was sent to jail.
(B) The apartheid system was dismantled
(C) He was given noble prize
(D) He became president.
2) Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal …………
(A) renewal
(B) rebirth
(C) regeneration
(D) restoration
3) Each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous…………trees of Pretoria.
(A) Mimosa
(B) jacaranda
(C) pine.
(D) bushveld
4) South Africa was isolated by the peoples of the world because it has become the universal base of the……...
(A) Terrible conflict
(B) hatred and corruption
(C) pernicious ideology
(D) non racialism
5) The moment to bridge the…………that divide us has come.
(A) ravine
(B) gap
(C) gorge
(D) chasms
6) Let there be work, bread, water and………for all.
(A) sugar
(B) clothes
(C) salt
(D) shelter
7) We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the …….of our people.
(A) thousands
(B) one million
(C) hundreds
(D) millions
8) The new interim government of national unity will address ….. ………..for various categories of people .
A) the issue of imprisonment
(B) the issue of democracy
(C) the issue of amnesty
(D) the issue of discrimination
9) We are both ……by the honor and privilege that the people of South Africa have bestowed on us.
A) Humbled and respected
(B) humbled and elevated
(C) respected and elevated
(D) dedicated and elevated
10) Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress in ……..
A) 1941
(B) 1942
(C) 1943
(D) 1944
CHOOSE THE CORRECT SYNONYM:-
1. Amnesty
(A) Offences
(B) Contract
(C) Consent
(D) Pardon
2. Covenant
(A) Prevention
(B) Pact
(C) Impact
(D) Convent
3. Exhilaration
(A) Liveliness
(B) Exhausted
(C) Accelerat
(D) Exemplary
4. Pernicious
(A) Evil.
(B) Permanent
(C) Petty
(D) Penurious
5. Reconciliation
(A) Removing Friendship M
(B) Humiliate
(C) Reestablishing Cordial Relations
(D) Rejecting Cordial Relations
6. Spurn
(A) Reject.
(B) Accept
(C) Reconcile
(D) Reply
7. Chasm
(A) Stream
(B) River
(C) Mountain
(D) Gorge
8. Elevate
(A) Reign
(B) Eliminate
(C) Upheld
(D) Uplift
2.3 I Dream A World by Langston Hughes
Key Points :
1. This poem presents before us the dream vision of a Utopia, an ideal world which has perfect peace and harmony.
2. A world where no one despises another, where there is no greed and avarice , no poverty and misery.
3. A world which is free of discrimination, where joy and happiness serve all mankind.
Encircle the correct option. CUTTING AND DELETING IS NOT ALLOWED.
1) It is written by………..
(A) William Blake
(B) Langston Hughes
(C) Stephen Crane
(D) William Wordsworth
2) It presents us a/an …….world.
(A) African
(B) ugly
(C) peaceful
(D) utopian
3) The theme of the poem is the lesson of………..
(A) beauty
(B) charity
(C) equality
(D) piety
4) Two lines of a unit in poetry are known as………..
(A) Couplet
(B) Assonance
(C) Tersest
(D) Strophe
5) Aural imagery is related to………
(A) seeing
(B) hearing
(C) touching
(D) smelling
6) Onomatopoeia is related to………
(A) speech
(B) movement
(C) sound
(D) smell
Unit 2.1: Study Questions:-
Q1. How does King describe the life of Negro in the US one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation?
Q2. Why is 1963, according to Dr. King, not an end but a beginning? A beginning of what?
Q3. What is Dr. King’s advice to the Black people while marching on the road to freedom?
Q4. Dr. King speaks repeatedly of his dream. What is his dream?
Q5. What does Dr. King mean by cashing a cheque, bad cheque, and a cheque that has come back marked “insufficient funds”?
Unit 2.2 Study Questions:-
Q1. Who are the people Nelson Mandela is addressing and what is the occasion?
Q2. What was the situation like in South Africa before this very celebration of liberty and glory that Nelson Mandela is speaking about?
Q3. Considering that South Africa was once “the skunk of the world” why does Nelson Mandela give his speech the title” Glory and Hope”? Glory of what and hope for what?
Q4. What does Nelson Mandela mean by “humanity has taken us back into its bosom……. who were outlaws not so long ago”?
Q5. Describe in your own words the struggles and efforts of Nelson Mandela for the liberation of the people of South Africa .
Unit 2.3 Study Questions:
Q.1. Compare and contrast Dr. King’s dream and Nelson Mandela’s hope with that of Langston Hughes?
Q 2. Write the theme of the poem?
Q 3. Write the critical analysis of the poem?
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