Question

Read the excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank.

He stands looking slowly around, making a supreme effort at self-control. He is weak, ill. His clothes are threadbare.

After a second he drops his rucksack on the couch and moves slowly about. He opens the door to one of the smaller rooms, and then abruptly closes it again, turning away.

Which best describes the purpose of these stage directions?

A to show the reader that Mr. Frank is still fearful of being captured
B to show the reader that Mr. Frank is looking for Anne’s diary
C to show the reader the pain Mr. Frank feels being in the attic postwar
D to show the reader why Mr. Frank needed to go into hiding

Answer 1

The answer is c

With the title of The Diary of Anne Frank, we know the edition of the personal diaries written by Anne Frank between June 12, 1942 and August 1, 1944 in a total of three notebooks preserved today, where she tells her story as a teenager and the two years in which he remained hidden from the Nazis, with his German family of Jewish origin, in Amsterdam during the Second World War.