Question

PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Read this excerpt from a news article and answer the question that follows:

Answer 1

Defiance in music: honoring a Holocaust-era pledge

PRAGUE (AP) (1306261430775)

In a concentration camp designed by the Nazis to eradicate Jewish cultural life, among 120,000 of its inmates who would ultimately be murdered, a rising young musician named Rafael Schachter managed one of the miracles of the Holocaust.

Assembling hundreds of sick and hungry singers, he led them in 16 performances learned by rote from a single smuggled score of one of the most monumental and moving works of religious music—Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem Mass.

"These crazy Jews are singing their own requiem," Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the genocide, was heard to remark after attending one of the performances at the unique and surreal camp of Terezin, in what was then German-occupied Czechoslovakia.

But for Schachter and his fellow prisoners, this Mass for the dead became not an act of meek submission to their fate, but rather one of defiance of their captors, as well as a therapy against the enveloping terror.

For Schachter would tell the singers: "Whatever we do here is just a rehearsal for when we will play Verdi in a grand concert hall in Prague in freedom."

Answer 2

What interesting choice for style and beauty does the writer make in the first sentence of this piece?

A.Using a specific number that might allow a reader to check the source later
B.Referring to the "miracles of the Holocaust," which gets the reader's attention
C.Using a specific person's name that might allow a reader to check the source later
D.Writing a long sentence that many people will likely skim without fully reading

Answer 3

@skyphos

Answer 4

Is this a test?

Answer 5

We can't help in tests...especially those who are copyrighted...(cheating)

Answer 6

i really need this grade please @skyphos

Answer 7

*help* is not cheating. ignore him.

Answer 8

what test is this? do you go to connections?

Answer 9

please help me @hayley3394

Answer 10

english

Answer 11

the answer is B

Answer 12

Which of the following sentences uses proper punctuation?

A. She asked what time it was, and the machine said, "The time is six thirty-two."
B. She asked "What time it was," and the machine said, "The time is six thirty-two."
C.She asked "What time it was", and the machine said, "The time is six thirty-two".
D. She asked what time it was, and the machine said, "The time is six thirty-two".

Answer 13

i think it is B what do you think? @hayley3394

Answer 14

It's definitely not B or C. But A and D look the same to me...

Answer 15

is it D?

Answer 16

If you go to connections academy, I can look it up

Answer 17

sure please

Answer 18

oh I see the difference now. The answer is A

Answer 19

Are you in english 11 or 12?

Answer 20

12

Answer 21

what test is it?

Answer 22

oh gosh, I haven't done any pretests.

Answer 23

Openstudy does not help people with tests nor quizzes.

Answer 24

Read the Code of Conduct Rules. http://openstudy.com/code-of-conduct

Answer 25

can you still please try

Answer 26

No. We are not allowed to help people with tests. Do you not understand?

Answer 27

message me privately since these douches wont mind their own business

Answer 28

I've reported you @hayley3394

Answer 29

congratulations

Answer 30

i blocked him
when they need help they would go against the code

Answer 31

I've also reported you too, @babyblue123 for violating the Code of Conduct.

Answer 32

The pretests we have to take are not "tests." Therefore we are doing nothing wrong.

Answer 33

ill message you privatly @hayley3394

Answer 34

The pretests are to get us ready.

Answer 35

than he cant do nothing @hayley3394

Answer 36

I know what a Pre-test is, it's a test that passes you if you get them all right.

Answer 37

Obviously hun, you don't. Our school does things differently.

Answer 38

You should not cheat, cheating is wrong. Learn on your own and stop trying to get others to do your homework.

Answer 39

You wouldn't need help on the pre-test if you were paying attention to the lecture.

Answer 40

You should get a life. Nobody is cheating so your presence is not needed.

Answer 41

This is a free site. If I want to be on the question, I can. Just like yourself. This isn't your question.

Answer 42

I hate annoying retricepeople like yourself. I have better things to do. bye now.

Answer 43

wow i can't cuss either. that's nice.

Answer 44

Very immature of you.

Answer 45

Cursing isn't going to do anything, it's not going to make me leave this question.

Answer 46

haha ok. bye.