Wiesel defines his term by its roots: "Etymologically, the word means 'no difference.'" What state does he say indifference produces?

"Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end." Wiesel adds that "indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim". What does his definition make indifference?

"Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment." Wiesel has just said that in denying the humanity of others "we betray our own". What does calling indifference a punishment add?

Wiesel asks whether one "can possibly view indifference as a virtue" and whether it must be practiced "simply to keep one's sanity, live normally, enjoy a fine meal and a glass of wine". How does the speech answer him?

Wiesel says indifference "is more dangerous than anger and hatred," because "Anger can at times be creative" while "indifference is never creative". Why does he rank it above hatred?

Wiesel says that for the indifferent person, "his or her neighbor are of no consequence. And, therefore, their lives are meaningless." What is he defining indifference as here?

Wiesel opens with "a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains" waking "in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald" -- himself, in the third person. What does telling it that way accomplish?

"But this time, the world was not silent. This time, we do respond. This time, we intervene." Which device is Wiesel using in those sentences?

Speaking about children he says we watch on television, Wiesel asks: "Do we hear their pleas? Do we feel their pain, their agony?" What do the questions do to the audience?

Wiesel addresses President Clinton as "Commander-in-Chief of the army that freed me, and tens of thousands of others". Which appeal is that phrasing built on?

"Better an unjust God than an indifferent one." Which device is Wiesel using in that sentence?

Wiesel notes that "today is exactly 54 years marking his death -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945". What does the date of the lecture let him do?

Wiesel gave this speech at a White House Millennium Lecture in April 1999. How does that occasion shape the argument?

"The depressing tale of the St. Louis is a case in point." Wiesel describes a ship of Jewish refugees that was refused entry to the United States in 1939 and sent back to Europe. What is the example evidence of?

With NATO acting in Kosovo as he speaks, Wiesel asks, "Will it discourage other dictators in other lands to do the same?" What does that current crisis give his argument?

Prisoners' "only miserable consolation," Wiesel says, was believing the camps were secret -- until "we discovered that the Pentagon knew, the State Department knew." What does that evidence do to his argument?

Which statement about "The Perils of Indifference" is NOT true?

Wiesel spends his opening on gratitude -- to the American soldiers who freed him, to the President, to Mrs. Clinton -- before he defines indifference. How does that opening serve the argument that follows?

The speech closes: "And so, once again, I think of the young Jewish boy from the Carpathian Mountains." Why return there at the end?

In what order does Wiesel build the argument of the speech?