Question

read this excerpt from elie wiesels nobel peace prize acceptance speech: of course, since i am a jew profoundly rooted in my peoples memory and tradition, my first response is to jewish fears, jewish needs, jewish crises. for i belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people. it would be unnatural for me not to make jewish priorities my own: israel, soviet jewry, jews in arab lands... but there are others as important to me. apartheid is, in my view, as abhorrent as anti - semitism. to me, andrei sakharovs isolation is as much of a disgrace as josef bieguns imprisonment. as is the denial of solidarity and its leader lech walesas right to dissent. and nelson mandelas interminable imprisonment. which evidence from the passage best supports wiesels claim that jewish people are not the only ones who are oppressed? a. it would be unnatural for me not to make jewish priorities my own. b. and nelson mandelas interminable imprisonment c. i am a jew d. i belong to a traumatized generation

Explanation:

Wiesel lists other oppressed - like Nelson Mandela with his imprisonment - to show Jews aren't the only oppressed. Options A, C, and D focus on his Jewish identity and connection to Jewish issues, while option B refers to another non - Jewish person's oppression.

Answer:

B. And Nelson Mandela's interminable imprisonment