3. PART A: What impact does the phrase "deportation by cattle car" in paragraph 4 have on the reader's understanding of
the text?
A It emphasizes the degrading treatment Wiesel and other
Holocaust victims faced.
B It emphasizes the limited resources the Nazis had during
the war.
C It illustrates the large number of prisoners that had to be
moved.
D It reinforces the idea that the Holocaust was kept secret
from everyone outside the camps.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme