Read the excerpt from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross, and then look at the map below.

Her plan was to travel as far as she could up the great brown Ogooué River, which winds almost 700 miles into the heart of Gabon.

The Mové steamed south along the coast, crossed the equator in the afternoon, and reached the broad mouth of the Ogooué by evening. Chugging steadily upriver, over the next two days the steamer carried Kingsley between banks of overhanging forest to the small settlement of Lambaréné, 130 miles from the sea.

A geographical map of Gabon, showing bodies of water and mountain ranges.

Map by Bourrichon

How does the map help the reader understand the information in the excerpt?
a

It gives visual details of the forests and river banks.
b

It shows the location and the size of the Ogooué River.
c

It shows the Mové’s journey across the equator.
d

It explains how far steamers could travel upriver.

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. 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. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.