Ididn’t understand, though i wanted to. ask any survivor and you will hear the same thing: above all, we tried to understand. why all these deaths? what was the point of this death factory? how to account for the demented mind that devised this black hole of history called birkenau? perhaps there was nothing to understand. based on the excerpt, the author would most likely agree that the rationale for the holocaust will always be incomprehensible. history is likely to repeat itself if past events remain unresolved. there have been few mentally competent leaders throughout history. understanding the past enabled him to move on with his life.

The correct answer is that the author would most likely agree that the rationale for the Holocaust will always be incomprehensible. This is made clear at the beginning of the excerpt where the author says "I didn't understand, though I wanted to", and it is also clear at the end when the author expresses "Perhaps there was nothing to understand". The author states that, even when they tried,  he and any survivor could not comprehend the actions taken during the Birkenau. The other answers are not correct because the author never mentions the repetition of history, the amount of mentally competent leaders or how he moved on with his life.

Answer :

The given excerpt has been taken from "All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs" by Elie Wiesel. It is a piece of writing about the atrocities and traumatic treatment that millions of Jews  went through at the hands of the Nazis. Millions of Jews were taken to Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust where they were brutally tortured. In his memoirs, Elie Wiesel writes about the deep impact the Holocaust had on his future life.

Based on the excerpt, the author would most likely agree that the rationale for the Holocaust will always be incomprehensible.

The author stresses that no one will be able to understand the reasons or the logic behind the torture and death of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Through the memoirs he has tried to make sense of all the torture inflicted upon him and fellow Jews by the Nazi government.

i believe the answer is: b. mr. head had a long, tube-like face with a rounded open jaw and a short depressed nose.

this is because in the un-revised sentence it said that mr. heads face was long and tube-like, and he had a rounded open jaw. this is not a very grammatically correct because of how it seems to drag on with the and, replaced with, with, makes it sound more fluent in the description.