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• This question refers to the following information. At last it seems to me that I have come to understand why man is the most fortunate of all creatures and consequently worthy of all admiration. … The nature of all other beings is limited. … Imagine! The great generosity of God! The happiness of man! To man it is allowed to be whatever he chooses to be! Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man, 1486 From the passage, one may infer that Pico was participating in which cultural movement?
• This question refers to the following information. At last it seems to me that I have come to understand why man is the most fortunate of all creatures and consequently worthy of all admiration. … The nature of all other beings is limited. … Imagine! The great generosity of God! The happiness of man! To man it is allowed to be whatever he chooses to be! Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man, 1486 From the passage, one may infer that Pico believed that humankind was unique because
• This question refers to the following information. As a Jew, I have never believed in collective guilt. Only the guilty were guilty. Children of killers are not killers but children. I have neither the desire nor the authority to judge today's generation for the unspeakable crimes committed by the generation of Hitler. But we may—and we must—hold it responsible, not for the past, but for the way it remembers the past. And for what it does with the memory of the past. In remembering, you will help your own people vanquish the ghosts that hover over its history. Remember: a community that does not come to terms with the dead will continue to traumatize the living. We remember Auschwitz and all that it symbolizes because we believe that, in spite of the past and its horrors, the world is worthy of salvation; and salvation, like redemption, can be found only in memory. Elie Wiesel, "Reflections of a Survivor," 1987 From the passage, one may infer that Wiesel believed that the current generation of Germans

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