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Remembering and Reflecting on the Holocaust Answers

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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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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

A
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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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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Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.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. Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman’s Maus.Which is an accurate statement about the excerpt and panel?

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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.
C
Both pieces depict the treatment the Jewish people endured during the brutal Nazi campaign.
D
Both excerpts show the experiences of the Jews after they were separated into groups.
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Elie Wiesel most likely wrote All Rivers Run to the Sea to

A
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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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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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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Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.To this day I am shaken when I see a child, for behind him I glimpse other children. Starving, terrified, drained, they march without a backward glance toward truth and death—which are perhaps the same. Uncomplaining, unprotesting, asking no one’s pity, it is as if they have had enough of living on a planet so cruel, so vile and so filled with hate that their very innocence has brought their death.Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman’s Maus.Which best describes why Wiesel and Spiegelman include Jewish children in their works?

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Both texts point out the innocence and naivete of the children during the Holocaust.
B
Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children.
C
Both excerpts focus on the children who survived the Holocaust and the generations that followed.
D
Both excerpts show how the children were sheltered from the horrors of the Holocaust as long as possible.
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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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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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