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

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

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The good stamp in the passport would give the individuals a possible means of escaping persecution.
B
The better-dressed individuals were generally more affluent and thus had a better chance of being spared relocation.
C
Even in times of danger and despair, the individuals placed an emphasis on a tidy physical appearance.
D
By being presentable and appearing able-bodied, the individuals still had hope they could escape a terrible fate.
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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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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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B
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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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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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.

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

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it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs.
p
people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice.
c
countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong.
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Moscow and Washington are to be blamed for the Holocaust.

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