The options of the question are, A) But this time the world was not silent. This time we do respond. This time we intervene. B) Some of them, so many of them could be saved. C) Does it mean we have learned from the past? Does it mean that society has changed? D) And so, once again, I think of the young Jewish boy from the Carpathian mountains. He has accompanied the old man I have become throughout these years of quest and struggle.
The correct answer is C) Does it mean we have learned from the past? Does it mean that society has changed?
The excerpt that best demonstrates Wiesel’s use of rhetorical questions to conclude his argument in “The Perlis of Indifference” is, “Does it mean we have learned from the past? Does it mean that society has changed?”
With these rhetorical questions, he wished things have really changed in a reflexive mode. Rhetorical questions are a figure of speech that is posed to make a point, not to be responded.
“The Perlis of Indifference” is a speech written by Eli Wiesel (1928-2016), an author and a philosopher that survived the Holocaust. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.