Read the excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank. The curtain rises on an empty stage. It is late afternoon November, 1945.
The rooms are dusty, the curtains in rags. Chairs and tables are overturned.
The door at the foot of the small stairwell swings open. Mr. Frank comes up the steps into view. He is a gentle, cultured European in his middle years. There is still a trace of a German accent in his speech.

What do these stage directions reveal about when the opening scene takes place?

It takes place after the Franks have been captured.
It takes place while the Franks are in hiding.
It takes place just as the Franks are going into hiding.
It takes place years before the Franks are captured.

Read the corporate document. all employees of cozy clothes ltd. are entitled to a 40 percent discount on regularly priced merchandise and a 20 percent discount on sale-priced merchandise. to apply this discount to an employee purchase, follow this procedure: 1. enter the purchaser’s employee id number into the cash register when prompted. 2. apply the appropriate discount. 3. apply sales tax. 4. print an additional copy of the sales receipt. initial both copies. 5. add the additional copy to the register drawer to be included with the nightly closeout report. what is the purpose of the numbering in this document? to indicate steps in a process to emphasize supporting ideas to signal the text’s main ideas to show the meaning of policies