AP ICET 25 July 2022 Shift 1 Solved Paper

Read the passage below and choose the correct answer for the questions from 136 to 140
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August $28,1963$, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over $2,50,000$ civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement.
Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed millions of slaves in $1863$, King observes that: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free". Towards the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme "I have a dream", prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" In this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and has now become its most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred. Jon Meacham writes that, "With a single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America". The speech was ranked the top American speech of the ${20}^{\mathrm{th}}$ century in a $1999$ poll of scholars of public address.