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Class 10 English Exam Questions The Diary of Anne Frank
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Short Answer Type Questions.
Question. Give a brief sketch of Anne’s life.
Answer. Anne was born on 12th June, 1929. She lived with her parents in Frankfurt until she was four- ear-old. Her father emigrated to Holland in 1933. Her mother Edith Hollander Frank went with him to Holland.
She and her sister Margot were sent to Aachen.
There they stayed with their grandmother. Margot and she went to Holland in December of the next year. Anne followed her in February. She was treated as a birthday present for Margot. She started right away at the Montessori nursery school. She stayed there until she was six.
Question. What idea do you form of Mr. Keesing as a teacher?
What values are reflected from his character? What is that you like most about him?
Answer. Mr. Keesing, the maths teacher, was very strict. He got annoyed with Anne as she talked too much. He warned Anne several times and after that he assigned her extra homework. When she completed it, she was assigned one more essay by Mr. Keesing.
He found all the essays correct and laugh at her arguments. This shows his liking for Anne. At last, he tried to play a joke on Anne by giving her a ridiculous topic—Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatter box. The poem written by Anne, completely transformed Mr. Keesing. Now, he had started having fun with students and even allowed them to talk. Mr. Keesing was a good teacher. He was a very disciplined and considerate. He wanted his students to be serious in his classes. However, he was a short-tempered teacher who punished Anne without understanding her stand. When Anne cracked a joke on him, he took it in positive way.
This trait of his character is very impressive.
Question. Why does Anne name her diary?
Answer. Anne named her diary to enhance the image of her friend in her imagination. Anne doesn’t want to jot down the facts in her diary the way most people would do but she wants the diary to be her friend and so, she calls this friend ‘Kitty’.
Question. Why does Anne name her diary?
Answer : Anne named her diary to enhance the image of her friend in her imagination. Anne doesn’t want to jot down the facts in her diary the way most people would do but she wants the diary to be her friend and so, she calls this friend ‘Kitty’.
Question. What was the poem that Anne wrote for the third essay? Did this essay appease her teacher?
Answer : For the third essay, Anne wrote a poem. It was about a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings who were bitten to death by the father because they quacked too much. The poem was so funny that the teacher forgave her and henceforth she was not punished for talking in class.
Question. Why was Anne’s class quaking in its boots?
Answer : Anne’s entire class was quaking in its boots because of the forthcoming meeting in which the teachers would decide who’ll move up to the next form and who’ll be kept back.
Question. What idea do you form of Mr. Keesing as a teacher? What values are reflected from his character? What is that you like most about him?
Answer : Mr. Keesing, the maths teacher, was very strict. He got annoyed with Anne as she talked too much. He warned Anne several times and after that he assigned her extra homework. When she completed it, she was assigned one more essay by Mr. Keesing. He found all the essays correct and laugh at her arguments. This shows his liking for Anne. At last, he tried to play a joke on Anne by giving her a ridiculous topic—Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatter box. The poem written by Anne, completely transformed Mr. Keesing. Now, he had started having fun with students and even allowed them to talk. Mr. Keesing was a good teacher. He was a very disciplined and considerate. He wanted his students to be serious in his classes. However, he was a short-tempered teacher who punished Anne without understanding her stand. When Anne cracked a joke on him, he took it in positive way. This trait of his character is very impressive.
Question. Give a brief sketch of Anne’s life.
Answer : Anne was born on 12th June, 1929. She lived with her parents in Frankfurt until she was four-year-old. Her father emigrated to Holland in 1933. Her mother Edith Hollander Frank went with him to Holland. She and her sister Margot were sent to Aachen. There they stayed with their grandmother. Margot and she went to Holland in December of the next year. Anne followed her in February. She was treated as a birthday present for Margot. She started right away at the Montessori nursery school. She stayed there until she was six.
Question. How do you say that Anne was a lonely but mature and intelligent girl?
Answer : Anne was a lonely girl who wanted to have a sincere friend. She wrote a diary to not feel lonely anymore. But she knew that no one would be interested in reading her thoughts. She, however, believed that paper had more patience than people. She also knew that her diary would keep her secrets for life. Anne, however, kept denying that she was lonely. She wrote that she had loving parents and nice relatives. She had friends. But she did not have a true and sincere friend. So she made her diary her sincere friend. The diary shows that she was a sensible and mature girl. This is clear in her poem.
Question. How did Anne finally stop Mr. Keesing from punishing her?
Answer : Anne did not stop talking in the class. Mr. Keesing again gave her another essay as a punishment. It was titled as ‘Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox.’ She had finished her skill in writing an essay on this subject. So Anne wrote the essay in verse. Mr. Keesing was trying to play a joke on her but she made it on him. Anne wrote a poem. It was about a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings. The father bit the ducklings to death because they quacked too much. Indirectly, Anne made Mr. Keesing the father of the ducklings. It was an insult. But he took it lightly. Thereafter, he never punished her.
Long Answer Type Questions.
Question. Does Anne consider her family lucky or unfortunate to be living in the annex?
Answer. Anne’s feelings about the annex constantly change. Most of the time, Anne realizes that she and her family are very fortunate to have the annex as a place to hide. She values the kindness and generosity of her father’s non-Jewish colleagues who are risking their lives to provide them with food and supplies. However, Anne often complains about the miserable physical and emotional conditions of the annex, and the confinement bothers her. She misses being able to see nature and the sky and laments that she cannot explore the world. Compared to her formerly comfortable, middle-class life, Anne must live with eight people under severe conditions—she eats rotten potatoes day after day, has no privacy, deals with clashing personalities, and lives in constant fear that the family will be discovered. Most of all, she feels lonely since she has no companions besides Peter in the annex in whom she can confide.
When Anne compares her deprived life to the freedom of non-Jewish Dutch children—a freedom she experienced so recently and took for granted— she feels indignant. However, when she thinks about her Jewish friends and family members who have probably been arrested and sent to concentration camps, such as her friend Hanneli, she feels extremely thankful to still be alive. Anne feels that the Jews as a group are not fortunate and have not been chosen for good things but bad. However, she expresses her conflict over whether she feels fortunate or unlucky about her personal situation. She wonders whether it would have been better to die a quick death than live a confined, tedious, and fearful existence.
Question. Read the extracts given below and comment on the similarity in the nature of expression and creativity of both the young girls mentioned in the extracts. Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking. I thought and thought, and suddenly I had an idea. I wrote the three pages Mr. Keesing had assigned me and was satisfied. (From the diary of Anne Frank)
Answer. Creativity is the tool to bring one’s desires and imaginations come to life. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl in hiding during the horrible times of Nazi Holocaust. She had little to no resources, and her prized possessions were her paper and pen. She was an avid thinker and unafraid to express her thoughts through her words, hence her statement, “Paper has more patience than people.” She would turn boring activities of writing extra homework into interesting and thought provoking essays with tongue in cheek. Writing was her tool to let out her ideas and allusions of her perception of the world.
Question. Does Anne consider her family lucky or unfortunate to be living in the annex?
Answer : Anne’s feelings about the annex constantly change. Most of the time, Anne realizes that she and her family are very fortunate to have the annex as a place to hide. She values the kindness and generosity of her father’s non-Jewish colleagues who are risking their lives to provide them with food and supplies. However, Anne often complains about the miserable physical and emotional conditions of the annex, and the confinement bothers her. She misses being able to see nature and the sky and laments that she cannot explore the world. Compared to her formerly comfortable, middle-class life, Anne must live with eight people under severe conditions—she eats rotten potatoes day after day, has no privacy, deals with clashing personalities, and lives in constant fear that the family will be discovered. Most of all, she feels lonely since she has no companions besides Peter in the annex in whom she can confide. When Anne compares her deprived life to the freedom of non-Jewish Dutch children—a freedom she experienced so recently and took for granted— she feels indignant. However, when she thinks about her Jewish friends and family members who have probably been arrested and sent to concentration camps, such as her friend Hanneli, she feels extremely thankful to still be alive. Anne feels that the Jews as a group are not fortunate and have not been chosen for good things but bad. However, she expresses her conflict over whether she feels fortunate or unlucky about her personal situation. She wonders whether it would have been better to die a quick death than live a confined, tedious, and fearful existence.
Question. Read the extracts given below and comment on the difference in the nature of both the female characters in the story. I wrote three pages Mr Keesing had assigned me and was satisfied. I argued that talking is a student’s trait and I would try to keep it under control but I would never be able to cure myself of the habit. (From the diary of Anne Frank)
Answer : In the first extract, Anne showed her intelligence by putting forth convincing arguments about her talking habit. She did not drift away from accepting what she had done but she put up some really good mature counter argument which showed that her habit of talking was inherited and she could not cure it. She said that inherited habits cannot be done away with so she could not stop talking.
3. Read the extracts given below and comment on the similarity in the nature of expression and creativity of both the young girls mentioned in the extracts. Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking. I thought and thought, and suddenly I had an idea. I wrote the three pages Mr. Keesing had assigned me and was satisfied. (From the diary of Anne Frank)
Answer : Creativity is the tool to bring one’s desires and imaginations come to life. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl in hiding during the horrible times of Nazi Holocaust. She had little to no resources, and her prized possessions were her paper and pen. She was an avid thinker and unafraid to express her thoughts through her words, hence her statement, “Paper has more patience than people.” She would turn boring activities of writing extra homework into interesting and thought provoking essays with tongue in cheek. Writing was her tool to let out her ideas and allusions of her perception of the world.
Question. What do you think about Anne’s talent for writing essays which she wrote convincingly, when punished by the teacher?
Answer : Anne was a young and talented girl. She was inquisitive and thirsty for knowledge. She had a flair for writing and tried to put her best foot forward. When unable to receive appreciation from her teacher for the first two essays that she had composed, she took her friend, Sanne’s help to script the third one. She suggested Anne to write her essay in the form of a verse. Anne did the same. She wrote her third essay in a verse-form which her teacher, Mr. Keesing, appreciated a lot. This shows that she was a determined and strong spirited girl.
