PART A: Which statement best expresses the theme of the poem?
A. Age and illness have the ability to affect our most cherished moments.
B. People often grow resentful of older family members as they age and change.
C. It is impossible to continue to face someone when they no longer know or love
you.
D. No matter how much someone forgets, they always remember those they love.

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt? forgetting = a divine gift forgetting = danger remembering = ability to learn remembering = a divine gift