Acceptable modifiers for Java class

Question

I recently took a programming quiz and missed the following question:

Which of the following are not allowable modifiers for a class?
Choose at least one answer.
    A. public   
    B. private  
    C. protected    
    D. abstract 
    E. final    
    F. static  

I chose protected and static and got the question wrong with half credit. The course is online and my instructor has not gotten back to me about this question, so I was wondering what the correct answer is.

Answer 1

For a top-level class, you can't use private , protected , or static .

For a nested class, all of those modifiers are allowed.