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 Jharkhand Board Class 10 English Notes |  From the Diary of Anne Frank  Solutions Chapter 4

4. From the Diary of Anne Frank                  ― Anne Frank
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                                    Questions on Extract
Read the following passages and answer the questions that
follow each :
Extract-1: 'Paper has more patience than people. I thought
of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little
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 hacked
notebook grandily referred to as a diary, unless I should ever
lind a real friend, it probably won't make a bit of difference.
      Now I'm hack to the point that prompted me to keep a diary
in the first place: I don't have a friend.

Q. (a) When did Anne think of the saying?
(b) Describe the writer's mood as reflected in these lines.
(c) Why do you think, did Anne feel depressed?
(d) How does paper have more patience than people?
(e) When would Anne allow anyone to read her diary?
(f) Find words from the passage which mean:
(i) deep thinking (ii) sad.
Ans.(a) Anne thought of the saying when she was feeling a bit
depressed.
(b) The writer is a little depressed, bored and listless
(c) Anne felt depressed because she didn't have a real friend
in whom she could confide.
(d) When we talk to people, they might not be interested in
what we say or get bored. But we can go on writing on
paper as long as we like. The paper does not lose its
patience with us.
(c) Anne would allow anyone to read her diary when she
would find a real friend.
(f) (i) Brooding (ii) Depressed.

Extract-2. The class roared. I had to laugh too, though I'd
nearly exhausted my ingenuity on the topic of chatterboxes. It
was time to come up with something else, something original.
My friend, Sanne, who's good at poetry. offered to help me write
the essay from beginning to end in verse. I jumped for joy. Mr.
Keesing was trying to play a joke on me with this ridiculous
subject, but I'd make sure the joke was on him.

Q. (a) Why did the class roar ?
Or, What made the class roar with laughter?
(b) Why did Anne feel, it was time to come up with
something original?
(c) Why did Anne jump with joy?
(d) What help did Sanne offer to Anne?
(e) What according to Anne, Mr. Keesing was trying to
do ?
(f) Which words in the passage mean same as :
(i) imagination (ii) funny (iii) finished.
Ans.(a) The class roared with laughter because Mr. Keesing
gave Anne another essay to write. The essay had a funny title.
(b) Anne felt that it was time to come up with something
original because she had nearly finished her ingenuity on the
topic of chatterbox.
(c) Sanne's idea about writing the essay in verse made Anne
jump with joy. She decided to bounce the joke back on Mr.
Keesing, which he was playing on her.
(d) Anne's friend Sanne, who was good at poetry, helped
Anne to write the essay in verse.
(e) According to Anne, Mr. Keesing was trying to play a joke
on her with this ridiculous subject.
(f) (i) Ingenuity (ii) Ridiculous (iii) Exhausted.

                Long Type Questions and Answer

Q. 1. Paper has more patience than people'. Elucidate
                                                 [JAC 2012 (A): 2014 (A): 2018 (A)]
Ans. 'Paper has more patience than people is a saying. It is
given in the chapter with a purpose. This purpose is in the context
of the author's writing her diary. And a diary has the pages made of
paper. Paper is equated here with the people in the relation of
patience. Patience is usually associated with the living beings.
People can lose it.They can be angry or wild without it. So patience
is a virtue. Paper is a dead thing. You can do anything to a piece of
paper. You kick it, tear it, throw it, drown it, eat it. It won't lose its
patience. But it is not as such with the people. They have a limit to
it. So paper has more patience than people.

Q. 2. Give a brief sketch of Anne's life.
Ans. Anne was born on 12 June 1929. She lived with her
parents in Frankfurt until she was four. Then her father emigrated
to Holland in 1933. Her mother Edith Holander Frank went with
him to Holland. She and her sister Margot were went to Aachen.
There they stayed with their grandmother. Margot and she went to
Holland in December. Anne followed her in February. She was
treated as a birthday present for Margot. She started right away at
the Montessori nursery school. She stayed there until she was six.

Q.3. Why did Mr. Keesing punish her?
Ans. Mr.Keesing was Anne's Maths teacher. He was annoyed
with her because she talked so much in the class. He gave her
several warnings. Anne could not check herself. So he gave her
extra homework. It was an essay to be written on 'A Chatterbox.
She wrote it down. She gave solid arguments why she talked so
much. She wrote that a student had to be talkative. Then these
were inherited traits in a student. Mr. Keesing laughed. But Anne
talked and talked. This time Mr. Keesing gave her the third essay
to write. It was to be on 'Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress
Chatterbox'.

Q.4. What was the punishment?
Ans. The punishment was more homework in addition to
the usual one. It was to write an essay on 'A Chatterbox'. Anne
thought and thought on it. She wrote that talking was a student's
trait. She also wrote that she could not cure herself of talking more
because her mother also talked much. So it was her inherited trait.
Mr. Keesing laughed heartily after reading it. But Anne didn't stop
talking much. When she talked so much again, he gave her to
write another essay as a punishment. It was 'An Incorrigible
Chatterbox'. But she again started talking. This time Mr. Keesing
gave her the third essay to write. It was to be on 'Quack, Quack,
Quack, said Mistress Chatterbox'.

Q.5. How did Anne finally stop Mr. Keesing from punishing
her?
Ans. Anne did not stop talking in the class. So Mr. Keesing
again gave her another essay as a punishment. It was 'Quack, Quack,
Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox'. She had finished her skill in
writing on this subject. So Anne decided to write the essay in
verse. Mr. Keesing was trying to play a joke on her. So she made it
on him. Anne wrote a poem. It was about a mother duck and a
father swan with three baby ducklings. The father bit the ducklings
to death because they quacked too much. Indirectly, Anne made
Mr. Keesing the father of the ducklings. It was an insult. But he
took it lightly. Thereafter, he never punished her.

Q.6. How do you assess Anne's character.
Or, Give a character sketch of Anne.
Ans. Anne is a responsible and intelligent girl. She is mature
for her age. Of course, she is talkative. But she is so due to her
family traits. And she doesn't hesitate to admit these. She is a
sensible, patient and self-respecting girl. She knows Mr. Keesing
has punished her. But she outwits him. She writes the last essay
which is an indirect hit on him. Mr. Keesing is also a sensible
teacher. He understands the wit of Anne. He does not punish her
again. So Anne is really a sensible girl. She is accurate in her
judgement. She is a sensitive girl too. She feels it much when she
and her teacher bid farewell. She also loves her grandmother very
much.

Q.7. How do you say that Anne was a lonely but mature
and intelligent girl?
Ans. Anne was a lonely girl. She wanted to have a sincere
friend. She wanted to write her diary. But she knew that no one
would be interested in reading her thoughts. She, however, believed
that paper had more patience than people. She also knew that her
diary would be a safe place for her secrets of life. Anne, however,
denied that she was lonely. She wrote that she had loving parents
and nice relatives. She had friends but did not have a true and
sincere friend. So she made her diary her sincere friend. Reading
the diary shows that she was a sensible and mature girl. This is
clear in her poem.

Q. 8. How does Anne prove through the writing in her
diary that she was an intelligent girl and had a sense of humour
also?
Ans. Anne was an intelligent girl. She loved humour also.
She wrote this all in her diary. She had a problem in Maths. She
talked too much in the class. Her teacher Mr. Keesing gave her
'punishment. It was to write on 'Quack. Quack. Quack'. She with
the help of her classmate wrote a poem. The poem had a mother
duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings. The father swan
bit them to death as they quacked too much. The reference was to
Mr. Keesing. It was a subtle humour. Mr. Keesing saw the jokes
and took it lightly. He had understood that he stood for the father
swan of Anne's poem. In this way, Anne proved through it her
maturity, wisdom and humour.

Q. 9. What made Anne keep a diary?
Or, Why does Anne want to keep a diary?
Or, Why does Anne want to keep a diary and what was the
name given to her diary?                    [JAC 2013(A): 2017 (A)]
Ans. Anne felt herself completely alone. However, she had
loving parents and an elder sister. She had loving aunts and a
good home. She had about thirty friends also. Yet she felt alone.
Actually there was no close friend she could confide in her heart's
deepest feelings. She had many things to talk about. But she could
not do so in the absense of a true friend. She had friends. But they
couldn't be called true friends. She talked to them about ordinary
things but not of the heart. So she couldn't get closer to them. So
she decided to keep a diary. She could write in it all her very
personal thoughts and feelings. She called her diary 'Kitty' as a
friend.

Q. 10. Why did the entire class quake in its boots? How
does Anne describe it?
Ans. The teachers were going to hold their annual meeting.
In this meeting they were to decide which student should go to the
next class and which to be kept back. The class had may dummies.
They were about a quarter of the class. So due to this, the entire
class was quaking in its boots. Some of the students had even
made bets. Two of the students had staked their er it holiday
savings. Anne or her friends were not worried. She wa ervin that
she would go to the next higher class. But she was nos about
mathematics. Due to this she was feeling some fear. Bit Anne
described it very beautifully.

Q. 11. Why does Anna want to keep a diary? What was the
name given to her diary?
Ans. Anne's loneliness made her keep a diary. She had loving
parents and an friendly elder sister. She had over thirty friends.
Anne felt the need of one true friend. A friend with whom she
could talk about ordinary, everyday things. A friend with whom
she could express her inner most feelings. She wanted a friend
who could hear her patiently. None of her family members and
her friends could do this for her. One day when she was lonely and
feeling little depressed she thought of keeping a diary as her true
friend. She realised that paper has more patience than people'.
She could share all kinds of feeling with her diary. Whether anyone
read it or not, it would not make any difference.
        She had given a name to her diary as 'Kitty'.

Q. 12. Was Anne an intelligent girl? Give instances in
support of your answer? Or, Write the character sketch of Anne ?
                                                                                  [JAC 2009 (A)]
Ans. Anne was an intelligent and responsible girl. She was
mature for her age. She was a sensible, patient and self-respecting
girl. Of course, she was talkative, but she was a caring and loving
child. She was full of childish activity. She did not consider her
school class seriously. When Mr. Keesing punished her to write
essays she wrote all essays without any delay. Anne was really a
sensible girl. She was accurate in her judgement. With her outwits,
she made her teacher to feel about her feelings. She was a sensitive
girl too. She loved her grandmother very much. When she departed
from her grandmother she felt loneliness. For that she became
very talkative. Thus we can say that Anne as a girl was mature for
her age.

Q.13. Give a brief sketch of Anne's life.
Ans. Anne was thirteen year old school girl. She was born on
12 June 1929 in Frankfurt in Germany. She lived there until she
was four. Her father emigrated to Holland in 1933. Her Mother
went with him to Holland in September. She and her sister Margot
were sent to Aachen. There they stayed with their grandmother.
She and Margot went to Holland later. Anne was admitted to
Montessori nursery school. She was in that school from the first to
six. After six she left that school and perhaps joined a new school.

Q. 14. Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr.
Keesing unpredictable? How?
Ans. Anne feels that teachers are the most unpredictable
creatures. What would they do next was always uncertain. Mr.
Keesing too was unpredictable. He found a strange way to punish
Anne. He gave her an essay to write on the topic "Chatterbox' as
punishment for talking in the class. Next he gave the topic 'An
Incorrigible Chatterbox' and finally he gave her the topic Quack,
Quack, Quack said Mistress Chatterbox. Thus Anne found him
an unpredictable.

Q. 15. Why was Mr. Keesing annoyed with Anne? What did
he ask her to do? How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox
in her essay?
Ans. Mr Keesing used to teach Maths to Anne. She was a
talkative student. She used to talk too much in the class, so Mr
Kessing was annoyed with her. Mr. Keesing assigned her extra
homework, an essay on "A Chatter Box". Anne wrote that talking
too much was the trait of a student. She had inherited this trait
from her mother. In this way. Anne justified her being a
'Chatterbox'.

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