In "goodbye to all that," joan didion writes that the days before she "knew the names of all the bridges were happier than the ones that came later." which evidence from the text best supports the idea that her first years in new york were better than her last years in the city? "everything that was said to me i seemed to have heard before, and i could no longer listen. i could no longer sit in little bars near grand central and listen to someone complaining of his wife’s inability to cope with the while he missed another train to connecticut." " we walked to a spanish restaurant and drank bloody marys and gazpacho until we felt better. i was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because i still had all the afternoons in the world." "now when new york comes back to me it comes in hallucinatory flashes, so clinically detailed that i sometimes wish that memory would effect the distortion with which it is commonly credited." "and even that late in the game i still liked going to parties, all parties, bad parties, saturday-afternoon parties given by recently married couples who lived in stuyvesant town, west side parties given by unpublished or failed writers who served cheap red wine and talked about going to "

Review questions what were the four stated goals of operation reinhard and how were these implemented? how did treblinka, sobibor, and belzec differ from other concentration camps built earlier? how did the nazi party maintain secrecy regarding the final solution? why was the madagascar plan not used? why were some individuals, including wwi veterans, to be spared the final solution?

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Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next