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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.

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it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs.
p
people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice.
c
countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong.
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Moscow and Washington are to be blamed for the Holocaust.
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Read the excerpt from Elie 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. Read the text and study the image from Art Spiegelman’s Maus.The theme best expressed by both Wiesel and Spiegelman is

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tragic misunderstanding
B
submissive obedience
C
inexperienced naivete
D
unconcerned laziness
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What does Art Spiegelman’s choice in portraying the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats in Maus reveal about his point of view?

A
He sees the Jews as the innocent prey and the Nazis as the cunning predators.
B
He feels that people with similar nationalities can be depicted by the same animal species.
C
He thinks that animal characters will lessen the emotional charge of the narrative.
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He hopes to gain empathy for the Jews who were forced to turn on each other to survive.
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Read the text and study the image from Art Spiegelman’s Maus.What message is Spiegelman trying to convey in the panel?

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The good stamp in the passport would give the individuals a possible means of escaping persecution.
B
The better-dressed individuals were generally more affluent and thus had a better chance of being spared relocation.
C
Even in times of danger and despair, the individuals placed an emphasis on a tidy physical appearance.
D
By being presentable and appearing able-bodied, the individuals still had hope they could escape a terrible fate.
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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.Which theme is addressed in both excerpts?

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Ignorance of reality is preferable to awareness.
B
Physical sensations can be just as painful as the event itself.
C
People can be worn down to the point of giving up.
D
Reality can be inexplicably cruel and unfair.
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Both Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea and Spiegelman’s Maus relate events of the Holocaust

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from a Jewish survivor’s perspective.
B
using the third-person point of view.
C
by retelling the experiences of friends.
D
through the eyes of their fathers.
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Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.I didn’t understand, though I wanted to. Ask any survivor and you will hear the same thing: above all, we tried to understand. Why all these deaths? What was the point of this death factory? How to account for the demented mind that devised this black hole of history called Birkenau?Perhaps there was nothing to understand.Based on the excerpt, the author would most likely agree that

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the rationale for the Holocaust will always be incomprehensible.
B
history is likely to repeat itself if past events remain unresolved.
C
there have been few mentally competent leaders throughout history.
D
understanding the past enabled him to move on with his life.
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In this universe some men existed only to kill and others only to die. And the system functioned with exemplary efficiency: tormenters tormented and crushed their prey, torturers tortured human beings whom they met for the first time, slaughterers slaughtered their victims without so much as a glance, flames rose to heaven and nothing ever jammed the mechanism. It was as if it all unfolded according to a plan decreed from the beginning of time.

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Both pieces describe the process by which the Nazis divided members of the Jewish communities.
B
Both excerpts relate the experiences of the Jews before they arrived at the concentration camps.
B
Both pieces depict the treatment the Jewish people endured during the brutal Nazi campaign.
B
Both excerpts show the experiences of the Jews after they were separated into groups.
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Which statement explains why Elie Wiesel most likely wrote All Rivers Run to the Sea as a memoir?

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to reveal the traumatic impact the Holocaust had on his life
B
to persuade world leaders to take action against oppression
C
to provide a historical account of Poland during World War II
D
to convince other Holocaust survivors to share their stories
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Which best describes Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea?

A
an emotionally detached autobiography
B
a brief biographical record of Wiesel’s life
C
a deeply personal account of a true event
D
an intense narrative of historical fiction

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