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Remembering and Reflecting on the Holocaust — Quiz

Question 4 • 26-27 ERWC A/B 9800E 9801E

Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea . We arrived at the station, where the cattle cars were waiting. Ever since my book Night I have pursued those nocturnal trains that crossed the devastated continent. Their shadow haunts my writing. They symbolize solitude, distress, and the relentless march of Jewish multitudes toward agony and death. I freeze every time I hear a train whistle. Read the text and study the image from Spiegelman’s Maus . Expand Image Which is an accurate statement about the excerpt and panel?

Answer
A
Both detail an account of Wiesel and Spiegelman’s fathers being transported to Auschwitz.
B
Both depict the emotional impact of what it was like to be sorted and separated by the Nazis and then shipped to the unknown.
C
Both support the idea that Wiesel and Spiegelman’s father continue to be haunted by their memories of the Holocaust.
D
Both support the fact that millions of innocent Jews were rounded up and taken to concentration camps.
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