Hope Despair and Memory by Elie Wiesel

The young man in the speech . . . (choose two)

• felt like giving up

• was joyful and excited for his future

• lost his family

• gains his memory back

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The "Allies" refers to

• friendships of people in the concentration camps

• the name of the political party for genocide in Germany

• a team of countries (U.S., Britain) during WWII

• the political party which was pushed out of Germany

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

In the speech, the "prisoners" refers to

• those who were captured as a result of their crimes

• criminals who committed horrible acts

• Jews captured and placed in concentration camps

• prisoners of war during WWII

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does Wiesel say God did as a result of the evil acts during the Holocaust?

• "betrayed his creatures"

• did not allow evil to continue

• created an anti-heaven

• "covered His face"

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What did Auschwitz represent for Wiesel? (Choose two)

• a place where civilization had ended

• only a place where Jews were killed

• a place where all of evil had been expressed

• a place for the Nazis to have their meetings

How did the Besht regain his powers?

• by working his servant to map out a plan

• forcing his servant to recite the alphabet

• by remembering the alphabet

• by backtracking his steps

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Who does Wiesel say "coldly, deliberately ordered the massacres?"

• the allies

• "doctors of law, medicine and theology"

• the Nazis

• Jews who were angry at their people

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

For the young man in the speech, what should evil serve as?

• a shield against memory

• a shield against love

• a shield against despair

• a shield against evil

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

According to Wiesel, what two things are incompatible?

• love and hate

• past and present

• hate and evil

• past and future

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Wiesel argues that without memory, our existence. . .

• "would be barren and opaque, like a prison cell

• "seemed to be erased"

• "dreading the same end"

• "like a tomb which reject the living"

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3