Question

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it.

Paragraph 1

Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, Anne’s father, Otto Frank , a German businessman, took his wife and two daughters to live in Amsterdam. After German forces occupied the Netherlands, Anne was compelled to transfer from a public school to a Jewish one. The Franks were a typical upper-middle-class, German-Jewish family. She was born on the eve of dramatic changes in German society that would soon disrupt her family's happy, tranquil life as well as the lives of all other German Jews. On June 12, 1942, she received a red-and-white plaid diary for her 13th birthday. That day she began writing in the book: “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”

1.Why was Anne compelled to leave school?



2.To whom or to what did she refer as ‘you’?




3.Why does she confide everything with ‘you’?



4.Type the meaning of the line, “that would soon disrupt her family's happy, tranquil life as well as the lives of all other German Jews’’ using your own words.
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Answer 1

Explanation:

1. Anne's father had already begun to convert the annex of his company at Prinsengracht 263 into a hiding place. Under Nazi law, Anne was forced to leave the Montessori school and attend the Jewish Secondary School. On her 13th birthday, in 1942, Anne received as a gift from her parents, a diary.