Access a private variable from the superclass (JAVA)

Question

Ok so I have studied java all semester and thought I had a clear understanding about inheritance and super/sub classes. Today we were given as assignment for making a superclass

Answer 1

Probably the sentence is not worded correctly, from what I understand it makes perfect sense to me :
1. the superclass has private fields and protected methods to access them
2. the subclasses access the fields by using that methods.