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Speech at Selma, 2015"
by Barack Obama
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It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what is right, to shake up the status quo. That's America.
That's what makes us unique. That's what cements our reputation as a beacon of opportunity. Young people behind the Iron Curtain would see Selma and eventually tear down that wall.
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which of the following sentences features an allusion?
(1 point)
"That's what cements our
• reputation as a beacon of opportunity."
"It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to
• speak out for what is right, to shake up the status quo."
"Young people behind the Iron
• Curtain would see Selma and eventually tear down that wall."
• "That's what makes us unique."

Answer 1

The sentence that features an allusion is:

"Young people behind the Iron Curtain would see Selma and eventually tear down that wall."

This sentence alludes to the "Iron Curtain," a term used to describe the division between Western Europe and the Eastern bloc during the Cold War, as well as referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall, symbolizing the end of that division.