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Hope, Despair, Memory Paras. 9-13

Authored by Kaitlyn Craven

English

9th Grade

CCSS covered

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Hope, Despair, Memory Paras. 9-13
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In paragraph 9, Wiesel writes, "If memory continually brought us back to this, why build a home? Why bring children into a world in which God and man betrayed their trust in one another?"


What does this quote reveal?

The despair the Jewish community felt after the Holocaust

How U.S. troops felt after liberating the concentration camps

The financial instability of Germany after WWII

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In paragraph 10, Wiesel writes, "Like the body, memory protects its wounds." What rhetorical device is found in this statement?

Allusion

Metaphor

Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In paragraph 10, Wiesel writes, "Like the body, memory protects its wounds."


This means...

It is natural for humans to suppress (ignore) the memories which hurt us.

Memories can cause us physical harm.

Remembering the horrors of the past is unnecessary.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In paragraph 12, Wiesel states, "It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered."


What is the best meaning of the word incumbent in this sentence?

Incumbent = a current responsibility

Incumbent = important, significant

Incumbent = a necessary duty

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In paragraph 13, Wiesel asserts that there is nothing that Jewish people oppose more than war.


Which rhetorical device does he use the most to prove this point?

Pathos

Allusion

Metaphor

Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In paragraph 13, Wiesel writes, "War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it."


What is this an example of?

Parallel structure

Repetition

Metaphor

Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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