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Which best characterizes the overall relationship between the two passages?
  1. Passage 2 rejects the political goals that are described in Passage 1.
  2. Passage 2 helps account for the responses to a speech discussed in Passage 1.
  3. Passage 2 romanticizes a person who is objectively depicted in Passage 1.
  4. Passage 2 reflects on a figure who is denounced in Passage 1.
  5. Passage 2 recounts the history of a national holiday that is celebrated in Passage 1.

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Passage 2 helps account for the responses to a speech discussed in Passage 1.
B
Passage 2 reflects on a figure who is denounced in Passage 1.
C
Passage 2 rejects the political goals that are described in Passage 1.
D
Passage 2 romanticizes a person who is objectively depicted in Passage 1.
E
Passage 2 recounts the history of a national holiday that is celebrated in Passage 1.
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The second passage gives an account of King's I Had a Dream speech by listing the reasons for its durability and popularity: "Time and again we replay the powerful image of King standing on a national stage in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial mouthing perhaps the most famous four words ever uttered by a Black American: I have a dream. For most Americans, those words capture Kings unique genius. They express his immortal longing for freedom, a longing that is familiar to every person who dares imagine a future beyond unjust laws and unfair customs. The edifying universality of those four words who hasn't dreamed, and who cannot identify with people whose dreams are of a better world are punished with violence helps to explain their durability. But those words survive, too, because they comfort folk who would rather entertain the dreams of unfree people than confront their rage and despair." Thus B is the correct answer. The other options are incorrect because they do not fit the context,

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