Page 3 - NCERT Questions and Answers

immature . But Anne Frank‘s diary went on to become one of the most discussed of all holocaust
victims. Her ‗diary‘ has been translated into many languages.

Question 2.There are some examples of diary or journal entries in the ‘Before You Read’
section. Compare these with what Anne writes in her diary. What language was the diary
originally written in? In what way is Anne’s diary different?
Answer: Anne‘s diary was entirely different from most of the examples given before the text. It
was somewhere closer to the memoir in which the name of Raj Kapoor has been mentioned. It
was originally written in Dutch. It has informal tone which exudes the true nature of a teenager.

Question 3.Why does Anne need to give a brief sketch about her family? Does she treat
‘Kitty’ as an insider or an outsider?
Answer: Anne gave an introduction of her family in the ‗diary‘ because it was hard to make
others realize that a 13 years old teenager could write about her loneliness. Kitty was an
‗outsider‘ which was gifted by her parents on her 13th birthday but she considered it her best
friend and treated it as an insider.

Question 4.How does Anne feel about her father, her grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr
Keesing? What do these tell you about her?
Answer:Anne has fond of memories of her father, grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr Keesing,
who have left indelible impressions on her mind and affected her life a lot. The way she
represents all of them in her diary reveals that Anne was very good at understanding people and
at developing interpersonal relations.

Question 5.What does Anne write in her first essay?
Answer:Mr Keesing asked her to write an essay on the topic ‗A Chatterbox‘ as punishment. In
the essay: she accepted the drawbacks of being talkative but argued that it was in her genes as
her mother was also very talkative. It was difficult to give up the habit and it was also a student‘s
trait. Even Mr Keesing laughed at the argument she had given.

Question 6.Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable?
Answer: Anne took perfect example of Mr Keesing as an unpredictable teacher because Mr
Keesing seemed to be indifferent towards Anne‘s‘ behaviour. Earlier he laughed but later he
allowed Anne to talk in the class post reading her essays.

Question 7.What do these statements tell you about Anne Frank as a person?
1. We don‘t seem to be able to get any closer and that‘s the problem. Maybe it‘s my fault that we
don‘t confide in each other.
2. I don‘t want, to jot; down the facts in this diary the way most people would, but I want the diary
to be my friend.
3. Margot went to Holland in December and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on
the table as a birthday present for Margot.
4. If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept
back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on Earth.
5. 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.