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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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Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea is a

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biography.
B
memoir.
C
scholarly study.
D
fictional narrative.
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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?

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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.
D
He hopes to gain empathy for the Jews who were forced to turn on each other to survive.
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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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Which best describes Art Spiegelman’s work Maus?

A
a nonfiction graphic novel that depicts the horrors of the Holocaust
B
a memoir of the author’s experiences during the Holocaust
C
a full-length comic depicting the relationship between father and son
D
a short narrative centered on the author’s personal tragedies of the Holocaust
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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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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.

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Both support the fact that millions of innocent Jews were rounded up and taken to concentration camps.
B
Both support the idea that Wiesel and Spiegelman’s father continue to be haunted by their memories of the Holocaust.
B
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.
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Elie Wiesel most likely wrote All Rivers Run to the Sea to

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lessen public awareness of the events of the Holocaust.
B
stop himself from having any type of emotional release.
C
attempt to make sense of the atrocities he experienced.
D
keep other Holocaust survivors from reaching out to him.
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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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Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.“I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” Read the text and study the image from Art Spiegelman’s Maus.The theme best expressed in both excerpts is

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reconnecting with family
B
discovering new paths
C
rebelling communities
D
threatening uncertainty

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