In the context of this speech, what are the effects of prejudice? cite evidence from this text,
your own experience, and other literature, art, or history in your answer.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.