Question

Read the excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank.

Anne (Pulling out a pasteboard-bound book). A diary! (She throws her arms around her father.) I've never had a diary. And I've always longed for one. (She looks around the room.) Pencil, pencil, pencil, pencil. (She starts down the stairs.) I'm going down to the office to get a pencil.
Mr. Frank. Anne! No! (He goes after her, catching her by the arm and pulling her back.)
Anne (Startled). But there's no one in the building now.
Mr. Frank. It doesn't matter. I don't want you ever to go beyond that door.
Anne (Sobered). Never . . . ? Not even at nighttime, when everyone is gone? Or on Sundays? Can't I go down to listen to the radio?

What does this piece of dialogue reveal about how Anne views her family’s situation?
She has not yet realized what it means to be in hiding.
She is not afraid of taking a risk for something she wants.
She does not think that the rules of hiding apply to her.
She is not scared of being found and sent away.

Answer 1

The best answer would be the first option: she has not yet realized what it means to be in hiding.


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Answer 2

Option 1: She has not yet realized what it means to be in hiding.

By the time Anna and her family had to hide from the Nazis, in the mids of World War II, she was only 13 years old approximately. Their new situation (Coming from a home where they could freely come and go to a hiding place), the complex war and the threat of the ruthless Nazis might have been a whole new thing to process, and hard to completely realize.

From the dialogue, it's clear that she hasn't realized what it meant to be in hiding and all that it implied.