LESSON - 4 FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

LESSON - 4 FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK ANNE FRANK Mp3

 LESSON - 4 FROM THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK BY - ANNE FRANK

Extract 1. ‘Paper has more patience ………………………………… make a bit of difference.

1. From which lesson has this text been taken?

    (a) Black Aeroplane (b) From the Diary of Anne Frank (c) His First flight

2. Who has more patience than people?

    (a)man (b) paper (c) hands

3. Which of these words is similar to the word ‘brooding’?

    (a) happy (b) thoughtful (c) wandering

Ans. 1-b, 2-b, 3-b,

OPTIONAL - 1.Which of these is Anne’s long waited friend?

    (a) her dog (b) her cat (c) her father (d) her diary

2.Which of these names did Anne give to her diary?

    (a) Kitty (b) Bitty (c) Kitten (d) Mitten

3.Which of these assigned Anne an essay on the subject ‘A Chatterbox’?

    (a) Mr. Keesing (b) Miss Margot Frank (c) Mr. Otto Frank (d) Mrs. Kuperus

4.Anne decided to write a diary because-

    (a)she had no close friend ( b) she was a good writer

    (c) she loved to express her thoughts (d) she wanted to be different

5.Which of these is true about Anne?

    (a)She was outspoken. (b) She was careless

    (c) She was reserved. (d) She was rude.

6.Mr. Keesing asked Anne to write an essay as-

    (a) homework. (b) a project. (c) a punishment. (d) It was for the school magazine.

7.Who was Mr. Keesing?

    (a) her teacher (b) her counselor (c) her principal (d) her relative

8.Which of these best describes Mr. Keesing?

    a) Jovial and creative (b) strict and innovative

    (c)tolerant and strict (d) jovial and innovative

9.What was Margot Frank’s birthday gift?

    (a)a diary (b) her sister Anne Frank (c)new stationery (d) her grandfather

10. Anne’s best friend was ………….

    (a) her father (b) her grandmother © her diary (d) her teacher

Ans. 1-d, 2-a, 3-a, 4-a, 5-a, 6-c, 7-a, 8-b, 9-b,

Questions and Answers

QUES. 1. Why does Anne want to keep a diary?

    Ans. Anne wants to keep a diary because she has no close friends.

2. Why did Anne think she could confide more in her diary than in people.

    Ans. Anne could confide more in her diary than in people because she thought paper had more patience than people.

3. Why does Anne provide a brief sketch of her life?Does she treat 'Kitty' as an insider or an outsider?

    Ans. Anne provides a brief sketch of her life so that people might understand the events and incidents better. She considers the diary an insider and addresses it, "My Dearest Kitty".

4. What tells you that Anne loved her grandmother?

    Ans. On her 13th birthday by lightning up one candle for her grandmother she shows her love for her.

5. Why was Mr Keesing annoyed with Anne? What did he ask her to do?

    Ans. Mr. Keesing was annoyed with Anne because she was very talkative. He punished her by giving her extra homework.

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

    Ans. Anne justified her being a chatterbox in her essay by explaining that she has inherited this habit of speaking too much from her mother.

7. What made Mr. Keesing allow Anne to talk in the class?

    Ans. Anne's last essay in the form of a poem showed Mr. Keesing the lighter side of a naughty child. It helped bridge the generation gap between the teacher and the student.

8. How did Mr Keesing punish Anne?

Ans. Mr. keesing punished Anne by giving her extra homework to write essays on 'a Chatterbox'.

9. What does Anne write in her first essay?

    Ans. In her first essay Anne wrote that talkative is a necessary quality of a student and argued that it was in her genes as her mother was also very talkative.

10. Do you think Mr. Keesing was a strict teacher?

    Ans. Mr. Keesing was not a strict teacher . In fact, he was a jovial kind of teacher.

11. Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr. keesing unpredictable? How?

    Ans. Anne says teachers are most 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.