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Question 18 • GA-English Language Arts 8

Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz.TERI SCHULTZ: Miep Gies said she did not like being called a hero. Yet, she risked her life many times over to help the Frank family during the two years they hid from the Nazis in a secret annex built into the Trading Company office in Amsterdam where she'd worked for Otto Frank almost a decade. Providing refuge to Jews, she noted later, carried a punishment of at least six months in a concentration camp. Still, the Austrian-born Dutch woman, knighted by the governments of Germany and the Netherlands, recipient of a medal from Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, always insisted she had done nothing extraordinary.

Answer
A
After the war, Miep Gies received many honors for her attempts to save the Frank family.
B
Miep Gies provided refuge to a Jewish family, even though she could have been punished.
C
Although Miep Gies never considered herself a hero; after the war, many other people did.
D
Miep Gies was knighted by two governments and received a medal from Yad Vashem.
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