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Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.That night changed everything. It had become dangerous for me to live in Tylicz. . . . Papa deliberated long and hard over whom to contact about smuggling me across the border.Andrzej had been fighting the Germans when Poland had first been invaded, but he’d been fortunate enough to escape capture; returning secretly to Tylicz, he was now working for the Polish resistance.Who knew the border better than Andrzej?...“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.”What assumptions can be made about the setting described in the excerpt?

It takes place in present day Europe.

It takes place in Europe during the WWII era.

It takes place in present day United States.

It takes place in the United States in the WWII era.

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Read the excerpt.My father had never met Andrzej, yet that morning he sent for the boy he had forbidden me to see to come into our house. Not a word had been spoken to me about these arrangements. This was my father, and of course I was not consulted.I was standing in the kitchen when I heard Andrzej’s voice at our door. My knees sank. Mama scrutinized me. I did not even look at his face.“Welcome, Andrzej. Please have a seat.” Papa offered him a chair. . . .“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.”Determine the narrator’s point of view in Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.

a historian recounting her own experiences during the Holocaust

a historian describing a survivor’s experiences during the Holocaust

a teenager describing her own experiences during the Holocaust

a teenager recounting her parents’ experiences during the Holocaust

Which excerpt from Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea” is an example of non-academic English?

"Yes, indeed!" said the father looking toward the tree designated.

Sometimes in his dreams he was a prince, riding away in a gorgeous carriage.

Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the simple folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams.

"Aw, woman, stop dat talk 'bout conjure. Tain't so nohow. Ah doan want Jawn tuh git dat foolishness in him."

Read the excerpt from 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.” Look at this image from Art Spiegelman’s Maus.What idea is related in both excerpts?

the sense of relief people experienced when they found a way to escape during the Holocaust

the sense of fearful hesitancy people experienced while living under the oppression of Nazis fascism during the Holocaust

the sickness parents experienced as they were separated from their children during the Holocaust

the sense of confusion small children and older adults experienced during the Holocaust

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

reconnecting with family

discovering new paths

rebelling communities

threatening uncertainty

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