From the Diary of Anne Frank — Practice

Question 1

What name did Anne Frank give to her diary?

Accepted Answer

✦ Answer: 'Kitty' — she wrote to it as if to a friend.

Question 2

Complete and explain: 'Paper has more ____ than people.'

Accepted Answer

The word is 'patience'. Anne means a diary will listen quietly and without judgement, unlike people — so she can pour out her true feelings to it.

✦ Answer: 'patience'; a diary is a patient, non-judging confidante.

Question 3

Who was Mr Keesing and why was he annoyed with Anne?

Accepted Answer

Mr Keesing was Anne's maths teacher; he was annoyed because she talked too much in class.

✦ Answer: her maths teacher, annoyed by her talkativeness.

Question 4

Why did Anne Frank feel the need to keep a diary, despite having family and friends?

Accepted Answer

Step 1 — She had a loving family, friends and admirers, but no TRUE friend with whom she could share her deepest thoughts.

Step 2 — She felt that paper has more patience than people, so a diary would be a patient confidante for her real feelings.

✦ Answer: she lacked a true friend to confide in, so the patient diary became her confidante.

Question 5

How did Anne justify her talkativeness in her first essay for Mr Keesing?

Accepted Answer

Step 1 — She argued that talking is a student's natural trait and promised to try to control it.

Step 2 — But she said she could not fully cure it because her mother talked as much as she did, and 'you can't expect much improvement in an inherited trait'.

✦ Answer: she called talking an inherited trait from her mother that could not be fully cured.

Question 6

How did the issue between Anne and Mr Keesing finally end?

Accepted Answer

Step 1 — For the third punishment essay, Anne wrote a witty poem about a mother duck and father swan whose ducklings were bitten for quacking too much.

Step 2 — Mr Keesing enjoyed the joke, read the poem to the class, stopped giving extra homework, and allowed Anne to talk.

✦ Answer: her humorous duck poem won him over; he stopped punishing her.

Question 7

Draw a character sketch of Anne Frank based on this extract.

Accepted Answer

Step 1 — Honest and self-aware: she writes frankly about her loneliness and her own faults, like talking too much.

Step 2 — Witty and intelligent: her clever essays and the duck poem show a quick, humorous mind.

Step 3 — Sensitive: she longs for a true friend and pours her heart into the diary 'Kitty'.

Step 4 — Brave and good-natured: she faces a strict teacher with humour rather than fear and takes punishment in her stride.

✦ Answer: honest, witty, intelligent, sensitive and good-humoured.

Question 8

What can we learn from Anne Frank's habit of keeping a diary and her attitude in the Keesing episode?

Accepted Answer

Step 1 — Writing/journaling is a healthy outlet for thoughts and feelings and helps self-reflection.

Step 2 — Honesty about one's own faults (her talkativeness) is a sign of maturity.

Step 3 — Humour and wit can resolve conflict and win goodwill, even with a strict authority.

Step 4 — Facing problems with a positive, light-hearted spirit is healthier than fear or resentment.

✦ Answer: the value of journaling/self-reflection, honesty about oneself, and resolving conflict with humour and a positive attitude.

Practice — From the Diary of Anne Frank

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