I believe the answer would be a.
Answer:
idiom
Explanation: it doesn't mean that somebody is literally going to hand u a piece of their mind
“Create” is the verb here, a verb is an action like run or jump, so create would fall under that category.
Answer: The allusion reminds the audience that 100 years have passed since the Emancipation Proclamation, yet inequality still exists.
Explanation:
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln was an Executive Order made in 1863 freeing all slaves in the Confederacy which should have had the effect of giving them equality in society.
Dr. King is decrying the fact that a hundred years after that Proclamation was made, the people who it was supposed to free were still being viewed through the eyes of racial inferiority and were therefore considered unequal in society.
I’m going to go with gradual. Gradual means not big, but not too small either. It can be fixed though.