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Question 1 • English Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea . My very last resistance broken, I let myself be pulled, pushed, and kicked, like a deaf and mute sleepwalker. I could see everything, grasp it and register it, but only later would I try to put in order all the sensations and all the memories. How stunned I was, for example, to discover another time outside time, a universe parallel to this one, a creation within Creation, with its own laws, customs structures, and language. Read the text and study the image from Spiegelman’s Maus . Expand Image Which theme is addressed in both excerpts?

Answer
A
Reality can be inexplicably cruel and unfair.
B
Physical sensations can be just as painful as the event itself.
C
Ignorance of reality is preferable to awareness.
D
People can be worn down to the point of giving up.
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