Question

To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity

Which sentence BEST restates this quotation from the passage?

A) To anyone who calls himself an American, the 4th of July is a sham and embarrassment.

B) A man can boast all he wants of national greatness, but it will be in vain if he does not include the slave in his celebration.

C) To a free man, the 4th of July is a day to boast liberty and join black and white men together in a national unity of swelling pride.

D) To the slave, the 4th of July is not a true celebration of ’freedom,’ but a cruel mockery of all that slaves do NOT have to celebrate on this day.

Answer 1

B

Answer 2

That is correct. Good Job!

Answer 3

The Meaning of July Fourth for the Sauce
Fredrick Douglass

1 On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"

2 Within the now-famous address is what historian Philip S. Foner has called "probably the most moving passage in all of Douglass' speeches."

3 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.


In this excerpt, how does Douglass explain to the audience how a former slave feels about celebrating the 4th of July?

A) He mentions all of the reasons that Americans should be thankful for independence.

B) He declares his determination to continue to work for the end of injustice and cruelty.

C) He contrasts the feelings of oppressed people with those of the people who are celebrating.

D) He expresses his pride in being a part of such a great nation as the United States of America.

Answer 4

B

Answer 5

I think its C tbh.

Answer 6

…your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence

Which BEST restates the information in the selected phrase?

A) You are heartless just like the tyrants whose brass beats the ones they control.

B) The sound of your rejoicing cannot be heard because it is not voiced with enough passion; therefore it is empty.

C) You rejoice and you denounce, but both are the things that tyrants and the military ’brass’ do on the front lines.

D) Your echoes of ’freedom’ are of no value because we slaves are still not free; you yourself are guilty of the same wickedness as tyrannical kings.

Answer 7

D

Answer 8

right ?

Answer 9

I believe that is right.

Answer 10

Lincoln's message in this speech is that

A) although a terrible tragedy has occurred, those who remain alive should carry on the cause for which the soldiers died.

B)the United States was 87 years old at the time of the speech.

C) there was a great civil war being fought in this country.

D) that Gettysburg was a great battlefield in a great war.

Answer 11

The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

1 Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

2 Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

3 We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

4 But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

5 It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ... that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ... and that government of the people ... by the people ... for the people ... shall not perish from this earth.