Question 9 • LA-English Language Arts 10 A ? Distance Learning
Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night.When at last a grayish light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk deeply between the shoulders, crouching, piled one on top of the other, like a cemetery covered with snow. In the early dawn light, I tried to distinguish between the living and those who were no more. But there was barely a difference. My gaze remained fixed on someone who, eyes wide open, stared into space. His colorless face was covered with a layer o
Answer
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It is an atmosphere of relief.
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It is an atmosphere of hesitation.
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It is a skeptical atmosphere.
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It is a nightmarish atmosphere.
Explanation
The images of people piled together “like a cemetery covered with snow” and the narrator’s difficulty telling the living from the dead create a frightening, unreal scene. This supports a nightmarish atmosphere, not one of relief, hesitation, or skepticism.
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