Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. .I mention all these details, which I remember so clearly, in order [to] give a sense of
the shock that we suffered when The Wall came upon us one night. There we were in
Berlin, at the crossroads between East and West, at the juncture of two fundamentally
different cultures, and suddenly we were locked up like canaries in a cage. Literally from
one day to the next, from being a vibrant and cultured city, Berlin subsided into the
drowsy torpor (dullness] of a midsummer afternoon in the provinces. We were
imprisoned in a dull, flat country
- Jens Reich, "Reflections on becoming an East German dissident, on losing the Wall and
a country," in Gwyn Prins, ed., Spring in Winter: The 1989 Revolutions
3. The historical event reflected in this passage symbolized the ideological tensions
between
A)
B)
church and state
absolute monarchy and fascism
democracy and communism
the Axis powers and the Allied powers
D)