Answers IC Sem B English 3Remembering and Reflecting on the Holocaust

Remembering and Reflecting on the Holocaust Answers

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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

the rationale for the Holocaust will always be incomprehensible.

history is likely to repeat itself if past events remain unresolved.

there have been few mentally competent leaders throughout history.

understanding the past enabled him to move on with his life.

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Which best describes Art Spiegelman’s work Maus?

a nonfiction graphic novel that depicts the horrors of the Holocaust

a memoir of the author’s experiences during the Holocaust

a full-length comic depicting the relationship between father and son

a short narrative centered on the author’s personal tragedies of the Holocaust

Which statement explains why Elie Wiesel most likely wrote All Rivers Run to the Sea as a memoir?

to reveal the traumatic impact the Holocaust had on his life

to persuade world leaders to take action against oppression

to provide a historical account of Poland during World War II

to convince other Holocaust survivors to share their stories

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

it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs.

people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice.

countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong.

Moscow and Washington are to be blamed for the Holocaust.

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?

Both texts point out the innocence and naivete of the children during the Holocaust.

Both texts reveal how the Holocaust altered the lives of families, especially the children.

Both excerpts focus on the children who survived the Holocaust and the generations that followed.

Both excerpts show how the children were sheltered from the horrors of the Holocaust as long as possible.

Elie Wiesel most likely wrote All Rivers Run to the Sea to

lessen public awareness of the events of the Holocaust.

stop himself from having any type of emotional release.

attempt to make sense of the atrocities he experienced.

keep other Holocaust survivors from reaching out to him.

Both Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea and Spiegelman’s Maus relate events of the Holocaust

from a Jewish survivor’s perspective.

using the third-person point of view.

by retelling the experiences of friends.

through the eyes of their fathers.

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?

Both pieces describe the process by which the Nazis divided members of the Jewish communities.

Both excerpts relate the experiences of the Jews before they arrived at the concentration camps.

Both pieces depict the treatment the Jewish people endured during the brutal Nazi campaign.

Both excerpts show the experiences of the Jews after they were separated into groups.

Read the text and study the image from Art Spiegelman’s Maus.What message is Spiegelman trying to convey in the panel?

The good stamp in the passport would give the individuals a possible means of escaping persecution.

The better-dressed individuals were generally more affluent and thus had a better chance of being spared relocation.

Even in times of danger and despair, the individuals placed an emphasis on a tidy physical appearance.

By being presentable and appearing able-bodied, the individuals still had hope they could escape a terrible fate.

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.Which is an accurate statement about the excerpt and panel?

Both support the fact that millions of innocent Jews were rounded up and taken to concentration camps.

Both support the idea that Wiesel and Spiegelman’s father continue to be haunted by their memories of the Holocaust.

Both detail an account of Wiesel and Spiegelman’s fathers being transported to Auschwitz.

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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