Answer: D) The church will prove just as dangerous as the protest.
Explanation: An irony is a statement or a situation which seems contradictory or different to what the audience is expecting. In the given stanzas from the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall we can see an example of irony in the mother wishes, because she doesn't want her child to go to the protest, because she thinks it will be dangerous, instead, she says he can go to the church, but the church will be just as dangerous as the protest.
