Read the excerpt from The Diary of a Young Girl.I was stunned. A call-up: everyone knows what that means. Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. How could we let Father go to such a fate?Which word best describes the mood of this excerpt?

The narrator imagines concentration camps and lonely cells when she hears about the call-up, and worries that her father may face that fate. These thoughts show fear, making “fear” the best description of the mood. Isolation is mentioned as an imagined possibility, but it is not the main feeling expressed.

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