Extra Questions And Answers of From the Diary of Anne Frank || CBSE CLASS 10 ENGLISH || First Flight ||

1)  Why did Anne Frank’s
family escape to Netherland? Did it help?

= Anne Frank and her family had moved
to Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

No, it didn’t help them because soon
after they moved to Amsterdam, the Nazis gained power in Germany but they were
trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into the Netherlands. As persecutions
against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July
1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank’s office building.

2)  When did her family go
into hiding? How did Anne Frank and her sister die?

= Anne Frank was a German-born
Jewish girl who wrote while in hiding with her family and four friends in
Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her
family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were
trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into the Netherlands. As persecutions
against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July
1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank’s office building. After two
years in hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to the concentration
camp system where Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of her
sister, Margot Frank.

3)  How did Anne Frank’s
diary get to the public in the form of a book?

= After Anne Frank’s demise, her
father, Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam and found
that her diary had been saved. Convinced that it was a unique record, he took
action to have it published in English under the name The Diary of a Young
Girl.





4)  How did the story of
Anne Frank turn out to be an embodiment of holocaust victims and how was it
adopted in popular culture worldwide in different languages?

= Anne Frank’s father, Otto, the only
survivor of the holocaust, published her writings in English under the name
“The Diary of a young girl.” The diary was given to Anne Frank for her
thirteenth birthday and chronicles the events of her life from 12 June 1942
until its final entry of 1 August 1944. It was eventually translated from its original
Dutch into many languages and became one of the world’s most widely read books.
There have also been several films, television and theatrical productions, and
even an opera, based on the diary. Described as the work of a mature and
insightful mind, the diary provides an intimate examination of daily life under
Nazi occupation. Anne Frank became one of the most renowned and discussed of
the Holocaust victims.

5)  What did Anne Frank
say about her initiating a diary writing?

= For a thirteen-year-old German
-born Jewish girl found diary entry to be a very strange experience, especially
for her. That is mainly because she was new to this and also it seemed to her
nobody would be interested to know and read about the musings of a little girl
in the future. However, nothing mattered to her at that moment because all she
wanted was to get things off her chest.

6)  “Paper has more
patience than people.” How did she justify the statement in her the-then family
and social circumstances?

= Anne Frank wanted to get into diary
writing to get all kinds of things off her chest. To her, “Paper has more
patience than people”. She thought of this saying on one of those days when she
felt a little depressed and sat at home with her chin in my hands, bored and
listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. She finally stayed where she
was, brooding: Yes, to her paper does have more patience, and she was stubborn
on the fact that she wouldn’t let anyone read that stiff-backed notebook
grandly referred to as a ‘diary’ unless she found a real friend
.

7)  How did Anne Frank
have a lot of people around in the family and as friends but she lacked a real
friend?

= Anne Frank, even after possessing a
great family, felt lonesome. She had everyone – a father, a mother, a sixteen-year-old
sister and about thirty people who she claimed friends, apparently. But there
was a void. Whenever she’s around her friends, she always thought of having a
good time but she couldn’t talk about anything else other than the ordinary
things and that’s the end. She could never get past that line and be closer to
any person. She thought these were few of the many things that are meant to be
and weren’t liable to change.





8)  How did Anne Frank
reflect on her idea of a real friend?

= Anne Frank, even after possessing a
great family, felt lonesome. She had everyone – a father, a mother, a
sixteen-year-old sister and about thirty people who she claimed friends,
apparently. But there was a void. She knew many people but there was hardly
anyone with whom she could talk about anything and everything, without
confiding anything. She wanted someone who could understand her, trust her,
share everything to and listen to her.

9)  Why did Anne Frank
decide to name her diary?

= To enhance the image of her
long-awaited friend in her imagination, Anne Frank didn’t want to jot down the
facts in her diary the way most people would do, rather she wanted the diary to
be her friend, and she decided to name her friend ‘Kitty’.

10) Acquaint us with the family of Anne Frank as she described.

= Anne Frank’s gives a brief
description of her family in her diary. Her father, the most adorable father as
she’d described, didn’t marry her mother until he was thirty-six and she was
twenty-five. Her sister, Margot, was born in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926 and
she was born on 12 June 1929. She lived in Frankfurt until she was four. Her
father emigrated to Holland in 1933. Her mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went
with him to Holland in September, while Margot and she were sent to Aachen to
stay with their grandmother. Margot went to Holland in December, and Anne Frank
followed in February when she was plunked down on the table as a birthday
present for Margot.

11) When did they leave for Holland and in what steps?

= Anne Frank’s father
emigrated to Holland in 1933. Her mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him
to Holland in September, while Margot and she were sent to Aachen to stay with
their grandmother. Margot went to Holland in December, and Anne Frank followed
in February when she was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for
Margot.





12) What memories did Anne Frank share of about her birthdays in
1941 and 1942?

= In the year 1941, Anne
Frank’s grandma fell ill and therefore, she had to spend her birthday with very
little and minimal celebration. In the following year, January 1942, her
grandma died. So, her birthday celebration in 1942 was intended to make up for
the other, and Grandma’s candle was lit along with the rest. Nobody knew how
often she thought about her grandma.

13) What memories did Anne Frank share of her Montessori school?

= Anne Frank started
attending Montessori school after she moved to Holland in the month of
February. She stayed there until she was six. She was in the first form then.
In her sixth form, she got Mrs Kuperus as her headmistress. By the end of the
year, they were so connected that it became heartbreaking and painful for both
of them to give a farewell.

14) Whose death took place in Anne’s family? How was she
affected by her death?

= Anne’s grandmother fell ill
in the summer of 1941 and she passed away in January 1942.

 We find Anne Frank expressing her concern
about her grandma’s death. She missed her all these while and loved her very
much and nobody would ever know how much she thought about her all the time.

15) Why was the whole class quaking in boots?

= Anne Frank started her
diary expressing how her entire class was quaking in boots because of the
forthcoming meeting in which the teachers would decide who’d move up to the
next form and who’d be kept back. Half the class was making bets about it.

16) What was the bet? How did G.N and Anne Frank react to the
pestering by the boys?

= C.N and Jacques had staked
their entire holiday savings on their bet. From morning to night, they only
argued on the fact whether he’d pass or not. G.N and Anne laughed hard to see
all these silly boys making bets on stupid things. Neither could G.’s pleading
glances and her angry outbursts calmed them down. She thought there were so
many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but
according to her teachers were the most unpredictable creatures on earth.





17) What opinion did she have about her passing? What opinion
did she have about others about passing?

= Anne Frank wasn’t very
worried about her passing the exam except for the subject Mathematics. But she
consoled herself by not losing hope and waiting until her results were out.

 Anne Frank wasn’t worried about her
girlfriend. She knew she could make it as well. She felt a bit silly about her
other classmates making bets on passing or not. She thought there were so many
dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but according to
her teachers were the most unpredictable creatures on earth.

18) How was the relation of Anne Frank with teachers and Mr.
Keesing?

=Anne Frank used to get along pretty well with all her
teachers. There were nine of them, seven men and two women. Mr Keesing, the old
fogey who taught maths, was annoyed with her for ages because she talked so
much. After several warnings, he assigned her extra homework which was an essay
on the subject, ‘A Chatterbox’.

          19) Why didn’t
Mr Keesing like Anne Frank?

          = Mr Keesing was the only teacher with whom Anne Frank did
not get along initially. He found
her very annoying as she used to talk a lot and that used to freak him out.

20) What was the first punishment work for Anne? How did she
manage to complete it?

= Mr Keesing, the old fogey
who taught maths, was annoyed with her for ages because she talked so much.
After his several warnings and Anne Frank dodging every warning successfully,
Mr Keesing came up with a punishment. He assigned her extra homework which was
an essay on the subject, ‘A Chatterbox’.

21) Why according to Anne Frank, it was impossible for her to
control talkative behaviour?

= Anne Frank argued that
talking is a student’s trait and that she would do her best to keep it under control,
but that she would never be able to cure herself of the habit since her mother
talked as much as she did if not more, and that there’s not much one can do
about inherited traits.

22) In what condition was Anne Frank given the second punishment
homework? How did she deal with it?

= Mr Keesing had a good
laugh on Anne Frank’s essay and therefore assigned a second essay which was on
“An incorrigible Chatterbox.”

She took it very sportingly
and handed two verses of that essay which compelled Mr Keesing to assign her a
third punishment.





23) How was Anne given the third assignment? How did she come
with a unique way to finish it?

= After the second
assignment, Mr Keesing had enough and assigned her a third homework on the
topic “Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox.”

After hearing such a
ridiculous topic, Anne Frank and the whole class laughed at it. But she nearly
exhausted her ingenuity on the topic of chatterboxes. It was time to come up
with something else, something original. She took help from her friend, Sanne, who’s
good at poetry, assisted her to write the essay from beginning to end in verse. Mr
Keesing was trying to play a joke on her with this ridiculous subject, but
witty Anne wanted to make sure that the joke was on him.

24) What story did Anne Frank put in her verse? How did she make
fun of Mr Keesing? Did Mr Keesing take it positively?

= Anne Frank, as her third
punishment, incorporated in her poem a story 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.

Mr Keesing took the poem in
a positive way. He even added his own comments while reading it out to his
class and several other classes.

25) What were the changes in Mr Keesing after he received the
third assignment?

= Mr Keesing took the joke
in the right way. He took it positively and even added his own comments while
reading it out to his class and several other classes. Since then. He never
assigned any more homework to Anne Frank and she was also allowed to talk in
class. On the contrary, this punishment changed Mr Keesing. He became one of
those persons who joked very often.





 

LONG QUESTIONS


1) How was Anne Frank an original, creative and imaginative
girl?

= Anneliese Marie, also known
as ‘Anne’ Frank was born on 12th June 1929 was a German-born
Jewish girl who wrote while in hiding with her family and four friends in
Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. She
was a very original, imaginative and creative girl. We find every ounce of her
creativity from her diary. With the name she kept for her diary, we get the
evidence of her creative mind. She has a very compassionate heart for which she
could never forget her grandma and thought about her very often. We are evident
of her genuine soul when we read about her being so lonely and not having a
real friend. From her definition of a real friend, we get to know that she was a
trustworthy girl who valued friendship as much as breathing and since she had
no real friend, she trusted her diary named “kitty” to get all kinds of things
off her chest. She is a witty and confident girl and we see this when she made
fun of Mr Keesing for being rude to her. She used her intelligence and wit to
take a place on Mr Keesing’s heart who on the contrary, ended up making jokes
often. She is a positive soul and nobody could ever feel bad when around her.

2) How did the Holocaust affect the whole family of Anne Frank?

=Anneliese Marie, also known as
‘Anne’ Frank was born on 12th June 1929 was a German-born Jewish
girl who wrote while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam
during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had
moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped
when the Nazi occupation extended into the Netherlands. As persecutions against
the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in
hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank’s office building. After two years in
hiding, the group was betrayed and transported to the concentration camp system
where Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen within days of her sister, Margot
Frank in March 1945. Her father, Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned
to Amsterdam after the war ended, to find that her diary had been saved.
Convinced that it was a unique record, he took action to have it published in
English under the name The Diary of a Young Girl. The diary was given to Anne
Frank for her thirteenth birthday and chronicles the events of her life from 12
June 1942 until its final entry of 1 August 1944. It was eventually translated
from its original Dutch into many languages and became one of the world’s most
widely read books. There have also been several films, television and
theatrical productions, and even an opera, based on the diary. Described as the
work of a mature and insightful mind, the diary provides an intimate
examination of daily life under Nazi occupation. Anne Frank has become one of
the most renowned and discussed of the Holocaust victims.





3) What do we get to know about Anne Frank’s opinion of writing a diary and about true friends? Do you think that this is even relevant in the
present society?

= Anne Frank was a very original and
intelligent girl who thought Paper has more patience than people. She had
numbered people in her life who she could always refer to as friends but not as
close as to share everything tiny things going on in her life. She knew many
people but there was hardly anyone with whom she could talk about anything and
everything, without confiding anything. She wanted someone who could understand
her, trust her, share everything to and listen to her. And finally, she decided
to pen down her feelings on paper because the paper has apparently more patience
than people. She thought how weird it would be to write what and how she felt
on just a piece of paper but it didn’t matter to her for too long. All she
wanted was to get things off her chest.

Anne
Frank’s story succeeds because it is a personal story that enables individuals
to understand one of the watershed events of our time, and because it
communicates what can happen when hate and intolerance prevail. The essence of
Anne Frank’s message has become a universal symbol of tolerance, strength, and
hope in the face of adversity—a symbol transcending all cultures and ages and
conveying the idea that discrimination and intolerance are wrong and dangerous.
Yes, this is exactly relevant in today’s society. We grow, we attend
school and colleges and meet a lot of people there but all as acquaintances. We
hardly find someone to share our feelings with, who would understand the rush
of our emotions and reason for our moist eyes. We are in a society where we
depend on online virtual friends rather than a true friend. We hardly find
someone to talk with and take things off our chest. Anne Frank’s diary teaches
us not always you have to share your thoughts and feelings to an alive human
creature. Anybody who’s worth understanding you, benefits as a real friend.
Anne Frank’s diary has enduring significance. Her perspective resonates with
the feelings and attitudes of teenagers in the post-Holocaust generation as
well.