Question

Part A
What claim about the value of personal action does Wiesel make toward the end of “Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize”?
A. No one person may speak for the dead.
B. One person can make a difference between life and death.
C. Victims of hunger are as worthy as victims of persecution.
D. Every continent contains examples of human rights violations.
Part B
What example does Wiesel give that best supports the claim in Part A?
A. the example of his own father, of whom he asked, “Can this be true?”
B. the example of Andrei Sakharov, who was banished from his homeland
C. the example of Lech Walesa, who was denied the right to dissent in Poland
D. the example of Raoul Wallenberg, who singlehandedly rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews

Answer 1

Part A: B
Part B: D

Justification: Toward the end of the speech Wiesel argues that a single person can change outcomes — even between life and death — and he supports this by citing Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews.