From the diary of anne frank

Question 1

Why does Anne feel that paper has more patience than people?

Answer 1

Anne feels that paper has more patience than people. There was a time when she was a little depressed and sat at home. She doesn’t want anyone else, except her, to read her ‘stiff-backed’ notebook unless she finds a real friend. She keeps the diary as she doesn’t have a friend.

Question 2

Why does Anne find diary writing as a strange experience?

Answer 2

Anne Frank thinks that writing a diary is a strange experience for her. She has never written anything like this before. She feels that no one else, except her, will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. She writes it for herself. She wants to get all kinds of things off her chest.

Question 3

Describe all the essays that Mr. Keesing had assigned Anne to do.

Answer 3

The Maths teacher gives her some extra work to write an essay on ‘A Chatterbox’. She writes three pages. She argues in the essay that talking is a student’s trait. She promises to keep it under control. She feels that she will never be able to cure herself of the habit. Her mother also talked as much as she does. It is an inherited trait. Mr Keesing has a good laugh at her arguments in the essay. He assigns her a second essay on ‘An Incorrigible Chatterbox’ Finally, as punishment for talking in the class, he gives her another essay on “Quack, Quack, Quack, said Mistress Chatterbox”. The class gives a roar of laughter. Her friend, Sanne, is good at poetry. She offers to help her. Anne wants to turn the table on Mr Keesing. She finishes the poem about a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings. They are bitten to death by the father because they quack too much. Mr Keesing understands the poem and its message in the right way. Since then she has been allowed to talk. She has not been assigned with any extra homework.

Question 4

Anne Frank is___________ old.

Answer 4

13

Question 5

Who helped Anne to write the essay in verse?

Answer 5

Sanne

Question 6

Anne was born in Frankfurt in Germany when she was four, her father emigrated to

Answer 6

holland

Question 7

When was Anne born?

Answer 7

1929

Question 8

Who was Mrs Kuperus?

Answer 8

Anne’s teacher in the sixth form

Question 9

What date did Anne make her first entry in her Diary?

Answer 9

20 June 1942

Question 10

Why was Anne’s whole class quaking in boots?

Answer 10

the teachers were going to announce their annual result

Question 11

What did she do when she was depressed?

Answer 11

She sat at home bored and listless.

Question 12

How many people can she call her friends?

Answer 12

There are thirty people whom she can call her friends.

Question 13

When were her parents married?

Answer 13

His father was married at the age of 36 and mother at the age of 25.

Question 14

Character Sketch of Mr. Keesing

Answer 14

Mr Keesing was an old fashioned teacher of maths in Anne Frank’s school. He was rather strict with his students and didn’t allow much talking in the class. He was annoyed with Anne as she talked too much in the class. Being irritated, he gave several warnings to her. Ultimately, he assigned her to write an essay on ‘A Chatterbox’. Anne wrote the essay justifying that talking is a student’s trait. She inherited this trait from her mother. Mr Keesing was not amused. He assigned her two more essays. They were: ‘An Incorrigible Chatterbox’ and ‘Quack, Quack, Quack, said Mistress Chatterbox’. Anne wrote the story of three ducklings who were beaten to death by their cruel father because they quacked too much. The essay gave the right message to Mr Keesing. By chance, the joke fell on him. He was a transformed man now. He allowed Anne talking and never assigned her any extra homework again

Question 15

What was the title of the third essay?

Answer 15

‘Quack. Quack. Quack. said Mistress Chatterbox.’

Question 16

What was the name of Anne’s mother?

Answer 16

Her mother name was Edith Hollander Frank.

Question 17

What does Anne write in her first essay?

Answer 17

In her first essay, titled ‘A Chatterbox’, Anne wanted to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking. She wrote three pages and argued that talking was a student’s trait and she would do her best to keep it under control.

Question 18

How did Sanne help Anne Frank in writing the third essay?

Answer 18

Sanne was Anne’s close friend, and good at poetry. She helped Anne write the third essay in verse. It turned out to be a good poem, and even the teacher, Mr Keesing, took it in the right way.

Question 19

How did Anne want her diary to be different?

Answer 19

Anne did not want to jot down the facts in her diary, the way most people do. She wanted the diary to be her friend. She called it a kitty. She wrote about her feelings and experiences in it. It was a mature work, reflecting deep insight.

Question 20

Explain ‘teachers are the most unpredictable creatures’.

Answer 20

Explain ‘teachers are the most unpredictable creatures’.Anne and her classmates thought that teachers were the most unpredictable creatures’ as nobody would know what there was in their minds and what their next step would be.

Question 21

How do you know that Anne was close to her grandmother?

Answer 21

Anne lived with her grandmother for some months when her parents went to Holland. She loved her deeply. When her grandmother died, Anne felt sad. She often thought about her. So she was close to her grandmother.

Question 22

Why was Anne in tears, when she left the Montessori School?

Answer 22

When Anne was in the sixth form in the Montessori School, her teacher was Mrs Kuperus, the headmistress. Anne loved her teacher deeply. She also showed affection to Anne. So when Anne left the Montessori school, she was in tears.

Question 23

Why does Anne think it prudent and wise to provide a brief sketch of her life?

Answer 23

Anne Frank calls her diary ‘Friend Kitty’. She addresses all her writings to Kitty. For readers, it would be rather difficult to understand ‘a word’ of her stories to Kitty. So, instead of plunging ‘right in’, she thinks it wise to provide a brief sketch of her life. Though she dislikes doing so.

Question 24

Why did Anne Frank feel suffocated?

Answer 24

Anne Frank was a very sensitive girl. She was cut off from the mainstream of life, her friends and her people. She was living in a hiding to escape being arrested by the Nazi agents in Holland. Moreover, even with so-called friends, she could not share her intimate and personal feelings and problems. She felt suffocated. She was left with no alternative than opening out her heart through the pages of her diary. ‘Kitty’ her diary became her most intimate friend.

Question 25

What was her father’s name?

Answer 25

Otto Frank

Question 26

What were the second and the third essays assigned to Anne Frank as punishment?

Answer 26

Mr Keesing had a good laugh at Anne’s arguments in the first essay on ‘A Chatterbox’. He assigned her a second essay on ‘An Incorrigible Chatterbox’. She did write on the subject. Mr Keesing was not satisfied. He said, “Anne Frank, as punishment for talking in the class, write an essay entitled — ‘Quack, Quack, Quack’, said Mistress Chatterbox’.

Question 27

How did she write the last essay “Quack, Quack, Quack, said Mistress Chatterbox”?

Answer 27

The third essay assigned to Anne Frank was also related to ‘Chatterboxes’. She had lost her originality on the subject. Her friend Sanne was good at poetry. She offered to help Anne in writing the essay in verse. The poem was about a mother duck and a father swan with three ducklings. The poor ducklings were bitten to death by the father because they quacked too much.

Question 28

Anne had loving parents and a number of friends. Even then she thought that she was alone. Why?

Answer 28

Anne Frank was a thirteen-year-old girl. She had loving parents and an elder sister. She had loving aunts and lived in a good home. She had about thirty friends also. Even then she felt that she was alone in the world. She had no intimate person. She had no true friend with whom she could share her feelings. She could not confide in anyone. She had a number of thoughts that she wanted to express to someone. But she could not get close to anyone. She could have a good time with them. She could talk to them about ordinary everyday matters of life. But there was no one with whom she could share the deepest thoughts of his heart. Thus she felt lonely in the world. She wanted a true friend so she decided to make the diary her friend.

Question 29

Anne’s poem a joke on Mr. Keesing himself

Answer 29

Anne had finished her poem. It was about a mother
duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings. The
three ducklings were bitten to death by the father. It was
because they quacked too much. Luckily, Mr. Keesing
took the joke the right way. Mr. Keesing had played a
joke on her. But she had had it on him. He read the
poem to the class adding his own comments. Since then
she had been allowed to talk. She hadn’t even been given extra homework. Mr. Keesing continued making jokes in the class