Question

2.What was Franz banking on to enter the class as he was late?

[a] M.Hamel’s teaching on the blackboard

[b] commotion in the class

[c] Hauser helping him sneak in

[d] to quietly walk in when everyone was preoccupied with participles.​

Answer 1

Answer:

d) to quietly walk in when everyone was preoccupied with Participles

Answer 2

[b] commotion in the class

Explanation:

• Franz noticed that the school was unusually quiet. There was a great commotion of the opening and closing the desk, repeating lessons with one voice, and knocking on the teacher's huge chair. But that day was as quiet as a Sunday morning.
• M. Hamel did not punish Franz, but he was late because it was the first day of school before the new teacher arrived the next day. Since this was the last French lesson  he gave them,  he was very sad and sentimental about it.
• When Franz entered the classroom that day he expected a rebuke from Hamel's mother and he spoke very kindly and asked him to sit down. Franz was also surprised by the presence of older villagers occupying the benches in the back  of the classroom.