Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy

Test Practice

Identify Main Ideas

With your partner, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. Read the fourth paragraph. What effect does the parallelism in that sentence have?
a. It emphasizes the struggles the United States will face in coming months.
b. It shows how much the United States will do in order to assure liberty.
c. It contrasts the difference between friend and foe.
d. It expresses the equal weight of good and bad in the struggle for liberty.


What is the correct answer to the question above? How did the information you gathered during reading help you eliminate incorrect answers?

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