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Close Read: Analyze Craft and Structure
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
Which of these quotations from the selection from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl best support the central idea that Anne feels she has no really close friend? Choose two options.
A. I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister. . . .
B. . . . there are about thirty people I can call friends.
C. I have a throng of admirers who can't keep their adoring eyes off me and who sometimes have to resort to using a broken pocket mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom.
D. I have family, loving aunts, and a good home.
E. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things.
F. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
Which of these quotations from the selection from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl best support the central idea that Anne feels she has no really close friend? Choose two options.
A. I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister. . . .
B. . . . there are about thirty people I can call friends.
C. I have a throng of admirers who can't keep their adoring eyes off me and who sometimes have to resort to using a broken pocket mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom.
D. I have family, loving aunts, and a good home.
E. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things.
F. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The two quotations that best support the central idea that Anne feels she has no really close friend are:
**E.** "All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things."
**F.** "We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem."
These options highlight Anne's feelings of superficial connections with her peers and her yearning for deeper relationships.
**E.** "All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things."
**F.** "We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem."
These options highlight Anne's feelings of superficial connections with her peers and her yearning for deeper relationships.