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Question 7 • English Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea . Why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into Poland? Why were the tracks leading to Birkenau never bombed? I have put these questions to American presidents and generals and to high-ranking Soviet officers. Since Moscow and Washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? That not a single Allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on Auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. Birkenau was “processing” ten thousand Jews a day. Stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. Based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that

Answer
A
it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs.
B
people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice.
C
countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong.
D
Moscow and Washington are to be blamed for the Holocaust.
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