From the Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank-Lesson 4.-English for Class X-Book: First Flight

 

Lesson 4. From the Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank (Notes Prepared by Shish Pal Chauhan)

Short Answer-type Qs.

Q1.What makes the writing in a diary a strange experience for Anne Frank?

Ans. She thinks that no one would have interest in her diary entries because she was just a girl of thirteen years. She has never written anything before. So she thinks it a very strange experience.

Q2.  Why does Anne Frank want to keep a diary?

Ans. Anne wants to share her feelings with a friend. But she has no close friend. So she wants to keep a diary to share her private feelings with it.

Q3. Why did Anne think she could confide in her diary than in people?

Ans. It was because she thinks that paper has more patience than people. She could write what she had in her mind. Her diary would not react and get bored.

Q4. Describe how Anne loves her grandmother.

Ans. Anne passed a very good time with her grandmother. She had to stay for some time with her. Then she fell ill and died. Anne was very sad. After that also, she remembered and missed her grandmother from time to time.

Q5. Why was Mr. Keesing annoyed (angry) with Anne? What did he ask her to do?

Ans. Mr. Keesing was Anne’s Maths teacher. He was annoyed (angry) with her because she talked too much in the class. So one day, he gave her punishment of writing an essay on ‘Chatterbox’.

Q6. How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her essay?

Ans. Anne tried to convince in her essay that she inherited (got) the habit of talking from her mother. She also wrote that talking is students’ trait. She was unable to avoid it. She wrote all this to convince (satisfy) her teacher and he got convinced.

Q7. Write something about Mr. Keesing.

Ans. Mr. Keesing was an old fashioned teacher. He was a very strict teacher. He punished Anne several times. It was because she talked too much in his class. But she respects her teachers.

Q8.What does Anne write in her first essay given as punishment by her Maths teacher?

Ans. Anne writes in her first essay that she cannot avoid talking. It is a student’s trait (quality). She inherited (got) this quality from her mother. She also talks too much.

Q9. Why does Anne say ‘paper has more patience than people’?

Ans. She said this because paper does not react. You can write on paper as much as you like. But the human beings have no patience. They cannot listen to you continuously. Very soon they get fed up.

Q10. Why did Anne think she was alone?

Ans. Anne thought she was alone. It was because she had no close friend. No one was there with whom she could share her joys and sorrows.

Q11. Why was Anne in tears when she left the Montessory School?

Ans. Anne had to leave her Montessory School when she was in six form. She had developed very emotional relation with her teacher Mrs. Kuperous. So she was in her tears when she left the school. Her teacher was also in tears.

Q12. Why was the entire class quaking in its boots?

Ans. The entire class was in stress because their result was going to be announced. The teachers would decide as to which student should be promoted from or dropped in the present class.

 

 

Long Answer-type Questions  (Notes Prepared by Shish Pal Chauhan)

Q1. Give a brief sketch of Anne’s life.

Ans. Anne was an intelligent girl. She wrote her diary at the age of thirteen. She was born on June 12, 1929. She did not know that her diary would make a great novel after her death. She was very sensitive girl also. She could not make her close friend. So she made her diary ‘Kitty’ her intimate friend. She is a wise girl. She was able to convince her Maths teacher about talking. She loved her parents, sister and grandmother very much. She had her independent thinking. It made her different from her mother and sister and even from her father.

Q2. Explain: “Paper has more patience than people.”

Ans. Anne says that paper has more patience than people. She wrote this sentence when she was just thirteen years old. She had no close friend. She wanted to share her joys and sorrows with someone. She found that people had less patience. They do not listen to others with patience. They get fed up very soon. But one can write on paper as much as one wants. It never gets fed up. It never gets bored. So she wrote al her experiences, good or bad in her diary. In a way, she talked to her as a friend ‘My dear Kitty’.

Q3. Describe how Anne was punished by Mr. Keesing and how she convinced her teacher about her view-point.

Ans. She was habitual of talking too much in the class. So he punished Anne to write an essay on ‘Chatterbox’. She wrote the essay and tried to convince her teacher that talking is a student’s trait. She also wrote that she inherited that habit from her mother. After some days, Mr. Keesing again punished Anne for talking. This time she was told to write an essay on ‘Quack, Quack, Quack, said Mrs. Chatterbox’. Anne’s friend advised her to write the essay in verse. She did it. She wrote that the father swan killed his three ducklings just because they quack too much. It was a joke pointed towards Mr. Keesing. Thus finally, Anne convinced her teacher about her view-point.

Very Very Short Qs & Ans. (Notes Prepared by Shish Pal Chauhan)

Q1. Where did Anne stay before going to Holland?

Ans. Before going to Holland, Anne had to stay in Archen with her grand mother

Q2. What was the last essay given as punishment to Anne by Mr. Keesing?

Ans. Mr. Keesing punished Anne to write another essay ‘Quack, Quack, Quack, said mistress Chatterbox’

Q3. How many siblings (real brother/sister) did Anne have?

Ans. She had one sibling, i.e. sister.

Q4. Who was Anne Frank?

Ans. Anne Frank was a pretty Jewish girl.

Q5. How old was Anne?

Ans. She was thirteen years old.

Q6. Why was Mr. Keesing annoyed with Anne Frank?

Ans… because she talked too much in the class.

Q7. Who was Mr. Keesing?        

Ans Anne’s Maths teacher

 Q8. Who was Mrs. Kuperous?   

Ans. Anne’s headmistress at Montessori School.   

Q9. In which form was Anne at the Montessory School?   

Ans. six form (class)

Q10. How many teachers were there in Anne’s school?  

Ans. Nine

Q11. Who helped Anne to write the last essay in verse?   

Ans. Her friend Sanne