Question

The Berlin Wall
Mike Kubic
2016

PART B: Which of the following clues from the text best support the answer to Part A?

A. "East Germany was rapidly losing its professionals – engineers, technicians, physicians, teachers, lawyers and skilled workers." (Paragraph 10)
B. "The GDR's 'brain drain' was so heavy…" (Paragraph 10)
C. "…the refugees testified that the reasons were 'more political than material.'" (Paragraph 11)
D. "By 1961 … GDR had lost to the West 3.5 million East Germans…" (Paragraph 12)

Answer 1

B

Explanation: Sentence B explicitly names and emphasizes the "brain drain," directly supporting the idea that the Wall was built to stop the loss of skilled and educated East Germans.