CBSE Class 10 English From the Diary of Anne Frank Worksheet

From the Diary of Anne Frank

GIST:
This lesson is an excerpt from “Diary of a Young Girl” or “The Diary of Anne Frank”. It is an autobiography that was first published in 1947. In this, Anne expresses her thoughts in a diary which was gifted to her on her thirteenth birthday. She names the diary “kitty” which she considers as her only true friend. She mentions about her childhood, her family and a lot other things that she told no one else.

CHARACTER SKETCH OF ANNE FRANK

Anne Frank was born on 12th June 1929 in Frankfurt Germany. She was four years old when her father went to Holland to find a better place for them to live. She was very intelligent and always wanted to become a writer.
She was a very good reader as well, she continued reading books, translated chapters, wrote down the vocabulary and worked hard on her skills. Like any child, she loved her parents but later grew a dislike towards her mother as she compared her to Margot. She was always jealous of her. She believed that time would come when the problems would be over. She felt lonely. Though she was amidst thirty people, she could hardly call anyone as her true friend. Anne died of typhus in the concentration camp at Berger-Belsen in late February or early March of 1945.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : 

1. My father, the most adorable father I’ve ever seen, didn’t marry my mother until he was thirty six and she was twenty–five. My sister Margot was born in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926. I was born on 12th June, 1929. I lived in Frankfurt until I was four. My father emigrated to Holland in 1933. My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our grandmother.

Question. Where was narrator’s grandmother’s house?
a. Germany
b. Aachen
c. Holland
d. Netherland
Answer.b. Aachen

Question. When was the narrator born ?
a. 1924
b. 1935
c. 1929
d. 1926
Answer.c. 1929

Question. Find the word from the passage which means’ to leave one’s own country to live in another country’.
a. emigrated
b. adorable
c. traveller
d. migration
Answer.a. Emigrated

Question. Anne feels that her father was the most _____________ father she had seen.
a. smart
b. handsome
c. adorable
d. intelligent
Answer.c. adorable

2.To enhance the image of this long awaited friend in my imagination, I don’t want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I’m going to call this friend ‘Kitty’.
Since no one would understand a word of my stories to Kitty if I were to plunge right in, I’d better provide a brief sketch of my life, much as I dislike doing so.

Question. Whom does Anne call ‘her’ a long awaited friend ?
a. Bunny
b. Kitty
c. Shally
d. Sophie
Answer.b. Kitty

Question. How does she want to begin her diary ?
a. writing on it
b. drawing on it
c. introduction
d. decorating it
Answer.c. introduction

Question. Find out a word from the extract which means the same as ‘to increase to improve’.
a. to go down
b. to enhance
c. to call
d. to imagine
Answer.b. to enhance

Question. Who was Anne’s true friend ?
a. her sister
b. her doll
c. her diary
d. her mother
Answer.c. her diary

3. I began thinking about the subject while chewing the tip of my fountain pen. 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. I thought and thought, and suddenly I had an idea. I wrote the three pages Mr. Keesing had assigned me and was satisfied. I argued that talking is a student’s trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control.

Question. I began _____________ about the subject while chewing the tip of my fountain pen.
a. studying
b. thinking
c. reading
d. discussing
Answer.b. thinking

Question. How many pages had Mr. Kessing assigned her?
a. 2 pages
b. 4 pages
c. 5 pages
d. 3 pages
Answer.d. 3 pages

Question. Find out a word from the passage which means ‘contended’.
a. ramble
b. convincing
c. necessity
d. satisfied
Answer.d. satisfied

Question. What is a student’s trait ?
a. fighting
b. enjoying
c. talking
d. dancing
Answer.c. talking

Read the given extracts to attempt the questions that follow:

WRITING in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater need to get all kinds of things off my chest. ‘Paper has more patience than people.’ I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding: Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I’m not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a ‘diary’, unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won’t make a bit of difference.

Question. Why is the narrator reluctant to start writing a diary in the above extract?
(1) Because narrator thinks that diary writing is boring.
(2) Because narrator is starting to write for the first time.
(3) Because narrator thinks that later on no one will be interested to read what a young girl ponders.
(4) Because narrator is mentally challenged.
(5) Because narrator is clumsy.
a. Only (1)
b. (1) and (2)
c. (2) and (3)
d. (1) and (3)
Answer. c. (2) and (3)

Question. Select the most appropriate option for (1) and (2).
(1) Paper has more patience than people.
(2) It means you can pour your emotions and feelings without being judged.
a. (1) is true but (2) is false.
b. (2) is opposite of (1).
c. (1) furthers the meaning of (2).
d. Both (1) and (2) can’t be inferred from the text.
Answer. c. (1) furthers the meaning of (2).

Question. According to the above extract, the narrator appears to be in need of ............ .
a. a teacher
b. a real friend
c. a sister
d. a kid
Answer. b. a real friend

Question. Select the option that displays an example of:
Feeling a little depressed …
a. He was upset with his poor performance in semester exams.
b. He has just finished up her assignment and ready to take up the next challenge.
c. He is waiting for the salary after the month-long hard work.
d. He is angry with his college management for poor communication with students.
Answer. a.  He was upset with his poor performance in semester exams.

Question. What do we get to know about Anne Frank when she says the following?
“... unless I should ever find a real friend”.
a. Narrator is hated by all.
b. Narrator doesn’t have good communication skills.
c. No one likes to be the friend of narrator because of her poor economic status.
d. Narrator is somewhat lonely at this point of time and needs someone with whom she can share her zand feelings.
Answer.Ans. d.  Narrator is somewhat lonely at this point of time and needs someone with whom she can share her thoughts and feelings.

Read the given extracts to attempt the questions that follow:

I’m not so worried about my girlfriends and myself. We’ll make it. The only subject I’m not sure about is Maths. Anyway, all we can do is wait. Until then, we keep telling each other not to lose heart. I get along pretty well with all my teachers. There are nine of them, seven men and two women. Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches Maths, was annoyed with me for ages because I talked so much. After several warnings, he assigned me extra homework. An essay on the subject, ‘A Chatterbox’. A chatterbox — what can you write about that? I’d worry about that later, I decided. I jotted down the title in my notebook, tucked it in my bag and tried to keep quiet.
(From the Diary of Anne Frank)

Question. Why was Mr. Keesing annoyed with the narrator?
a. Because narrator was not good at Maths.
b. Because narrator talked a lot.
c. Because narrator had poor communication skills.
d. Because narrator was poor in sports.
Answer. b. Because narrator talked a lot.

Question. What did Mr. Keesing do to punish the narrator?
a. Mr. Keesing asked narrator to call her parents.
b. Mr. Keesing threatened the narrator to spoil her grades.
c. Mr. Keesing shouted and humiliated the narrator in front of entire class.
d. Mr. Keesing assigned extra homework to narrator.
Answer. d. Mr. Keesing assigned extra homework to narrator.

Question. Mr. Keesing taught………………… .
a. Maths
b. Stastistics
c. Data Science
d. Computer programming
Answer. a. Maths

Question. What was the topic on which the narrator was supposed to write an essay?
a. A babbler
b. A talker
c. A propagandist
d. A chatter box
Answer. d. A chatter box

Question. Select the most appropriate word from the above extract and complete the following:
Above: Below :: Pleased :
a. Jotted
b. Tucked
c. Annoyed
d. Worried
Answer. c. Annoyed

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow. 

1. Let me put it more clearly, since no one will believe that a thirteen-year-old girl is completely alone in the world. And I’m not. I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister, and there are about thirty people I can call friends. I have a family, loving aunts and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything, except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. 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. In any case, that’s just how things are, and unfortunately they’re not liable to change. This is why I’ve started the diary.

Question. Why did Anne decide to write a diary?
Answers.Anne decided to write a diary because she could not confide in anyone and felt lonely.

Question. Why was Anne Frank disturbed even when she had loving parents, relatives and friends?
Answers. Anne Frank was disturbed even after being surrounded by so many people because she didn’t have any true friend. 

Question. To confide in somebody is to ………
Answers.It means to tell somebody your secrets or personal information.

Question. Find the word that means the same as ‘unluckily’.
Answers.The word is unfortunately.

2. Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I have never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musing of a thirteen year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing and I have an even greater need to get all kind of things off my chest.
‘Paper has more patience than people.’ I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless,wondering whether to stay in or go out.

Question. ‘Paper has more patience than people’ – Why did Anne Frank say that?
Answers.Anne Frank said that ‘Paper has more patience than people’ because one can rely on the paper to confide his/her secrets and it listens carefully and silently.

Question. Whom does ‘I’ refer to in the given passage?
Answers.‘I’ refers to Anne Frank in the given passage. 

Question. Which word in the passage is a synonym of lethargic?
Answers.The word is ‘listless’.

Question. Find a word in the passage that means ‘deep thought’.
Answers.The word is ‘musing’.

3. To enhance the image of this long awaited friend in my imagination, I don’t want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I’m going to call this friend ‘Kitty’.
Since no one would understand a word of my stories to Kitty if I were to plunge right in, I’d better provide a brief sketch of my life, much as I dislike doing so.

Question. What did she provide in her diary?
Answers.She provided a brief-sketch of her life and her family in her diary

Question. Who was the long awaited friend of Anne? Why?
Answers.The diary named ‘Kitty’ was the long awaited friend of Anne, because she had no true friend in her life with whom she could share her feelings and thoughts.

Question. Find a word from the extract which means the same as ‘submerge’.
Answers.Plunge.

Short Answer Questions :

Question. What does Anne Frank tell about her family in her diary?
Answers. Anne Frank tells that she has very lovely and caring family.Her parents and her elder sister love her a lot. There are about thirty people nearby her whom she can call friends. She has loving aunts and a good home but she wants to have a true friend with whom she can share her feelings and thoughts.

Question. Why does Anne Frank think that ‘paper’ has more patience than ‘people’?
Answers. Anne believes that paper has more patience than people because it listens to her more patiently and silently it does not react like other people and also because she can confide in her diary all her secrets.

Question. Describe your views about Mr Keesing as a teacher.
Answers. Mr Keesing seems to be a strict teacher. He actually believes taking action with good intention and prefers development in children. He tries to control Anne’s talkative habit, but as soon as he is convinced that it does not affect her studies, he overlooks her shortcoming.

Long Answer Question :

Question. Why did Anne think that she could confide more in her diary than in the people?
Answers.Anne Frank did not have a friend with whom she could share her feelings. Though she had spent a good time with her friends but she was unable to share her views and thoughts with them. When she got her diary, she decided to share everything with it because she believed that nobody would be interested in her musings. So, she treated her diary as her best friend. She felt that it would keep her life a secret and would not react like people. She confided everything in the diary; her family, her fear,her loneliness, her life and considered it her best friend and named it ‘Kitty”.

Question. Anne called 26th July a ‘tumultuous’ day. Explain the reasons behind it.
Answers.Anne called 26th July a tumultuous day as it was full of tension and fright. The first warning siren was sent off in the morning but nobody paid any attention to it because it only meant that the planes were crossing the coast. The siren alarmed again around 2 O’clock in the afternoon. Anne and her sister went upstairs but after five minutes they heard loud gunshots. After half an hour, drone of engines faded and life became normal. The city was enveloped in thick fog. But after dinner time,there was another gun-fire round and swarms of planes. The air was buzzing with the drone of engines. Nobody was able to sleep that night because it repeated again at midnight.

TEST YOUR SKILLS

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. How was the frog before the arrival of the nightingale? What was the attitude of others towards him in the bog?

2. How did the frog introduce himself to the nightingale? How was she influenced by the frog?

3. How did the wily frog exploit the magical voice of the nightingale to his own advantage?

4. How did the frog bully the nightingale and with what results?

5. How did the wicked frog bring the death of the poor nightingale?

6. Was the nightingale really “stupid”? Give your own estimate of her character in 30-40 words.

7. What is the message that you get after reading Vikram Seth’s ‘The Frog and the Nightingale?’

8. How were the creatures of the bog got attracted towards the sumac tree and why did they stop coming there in the end?

9. Give some examples to prove that the nightingale was really oblivious of her talent and ability.

10. How was the nightingale ‘prone to influence’? Give two examples from the text.

11. Do you think the nightingale was responsible for her own tragic end? How?

12. Find the ironical ending of the poem? Do you find the statement of the frog about the nightingale ironical? If yes, how?

13. How did the frog outwit the unsuspecting nightingale making her a means of gratifying his greed and inflated ego?

14. Describe the tragic end of the nightingale.

I. LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. Describe the irony in the words of the frog: “your song must be your own.” How did the Nightingale suffer her tragic fate?