America maintained an isolationist policy.
Answer:
B. They have a tendency to talk about themselves.
Explanation:
According to the stated paragraph and sentence, the narrator mentions how he and his cousins won't stop talking about themselves as they try to keep up the illusion by mentioning names and casting fringes on their family connection.
Therefore, the narrator suggests that he and his cousins have a tendency to talk about themselves.
Upperclassmen is the misspelled word
It’s upperclassman
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C. It explains how important memory is to Wiesel.
People that do not know their history are doomed to repeat it, this si why it´s so important for Wiesel that we all keep in our memory the fatal events of our past.
There are no rhetorical questions here (or any questions) and no metaphors: the text is quite literal ( so we reject the options B and D).
I also find no personification, after all the text discusses a person already !
The correct answer is D, and the parallelism is of a form
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