U2 The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play - Theme

Multiple Choice

Part A

What theme is developed in this passage?

• Teenagers don’t have an accurate view of history.

• Political changes in a country can also change the personal lives of its citizens in a very short period of time.

• There’s no use dwelling on the past.

• Political change doesn’t affect the lives of everyday people.

Multiple Choice

Part B

Which of the following quotes from the text support your answer from Part A?

• “ I couldn’t go to the movies, or ride in an automobile or even on a streetcar, and a million other things.”

• “Our hiding place was to be upstairs in the building where Father used to have his business.”

• “Then the war came, and the Dutch capitulation, followed by the arrival of the Germans.”

• “My name is Anne Frank. I am thirteen years old. I was born in Germany the twelfth of June, nineteen twenty-nine.”