FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 10 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - THE GIRL WHO WAS ANNE FRANK

 

Unit - 07

THE GIRL WHO WAS ANNE FRANK

Louis De Jong

Comprehension

Answer briefly the following questions.

1) Why does the Professor say, “I have read Anne Frank’s diary”?

Ans: When an argumentative young student asked him how he knew that the human race was worth saving. So, the Professor said that he had read Anne Frank’s diary.

 

2) What does his statement imply?

Ans:  All human races merit sparing as each race is valuable.

 

3) What was Anne’s father?

Ans: Anne’s father was Otto Frank and he was a banker.

 

4) Give any one example to prove the popularity of Anne Frank’s Diary.

Ans: Anne Frank’s Diary had been published in so many languages even in German too. Many of them had sent gifts to Anne’s father after reading that diary. The diary had touched to the hearts of people and was sold in millions of copies around the world.

 

5) a) Name the members of Mr. Otto Frank’s family

Ans: a) Mr. Otto Frank, Mrs. Frank, and his two daughters, Margot and Anne, and Frank’s mother who was migrated to Switzerland were the family members of Mr. Otto Frank.

 

b) What impression did people have about Anne?

Ans: b) Many people had the feeling that Margot, Anne's elder sister was all the more encouraging and Anne was not especially a splendid understudy.

 

6) Why did Otto Frank decide to migrate to Netherlands? Give two reasons.

Ans: Adolf Hitler had issued anti-Jewish decree and Netherlands was safe for his family and for his business. So, Mr. Otto Frank decided to migrate to Netherlands.  

 

7) Who was Mr. Van Daan?

Ans: Mr. Van Daan was a fellow refugee and partner of Mr. Otto Frank.

 

8) What qualities of Mr. Frank did his staff admire?

Ans: Mr. Otto Frank's staff respected him for his warm character. They respected his boldness and the apparent consideration he took to give his two young daughter proper edification.

 

9) Paragraph 7 refers to a lucky fact. What was that lucky fact?

Ans:  Franks lived in a town encompassed by a jabbering horde of sweethearts that fit the two young ladies and had an upbeat existence.

 

10) What finally forced Frank to go into hiding?

Ans: Mr. Otto Frank was forced to into hiding when Nazis invaded Netherlands and they were trapped. He decided to go into hiding place with his family members.

 

11) Where did Otto Frank and others hide themselves in?

Ans: Mr. Otto Frank chose to cover up in his own business office with others and his family members. A couple of abandoned rooms on the upper floors called the "Annexe".

 

12) In all, how many people managed to hide in the Annexe? Who were they?

Ans: There were around about eight people managed to hide in the Annexe. They were Mr. Otto Frank, Mrs. Otto Frank, his two daughters, Mr. Van Daan’s three family members and a Jewish dentist.

 

13) What helped the hiding party to establish contact with the outside world?

Ans: The radio and the four courageous staff members of Otto Frank had helped the hiding party to establish contact with the outside world.  

 

14) What did Anne Frank record in her diary?

Ans: Anne Frank recorded her life in the Annexe with all its inescapable pressures and fights. She made a magnificent and sensitive record of puberty with complete trustworthiness of a little youngster's musings and emotions.

15) How did Anne compare herself to a song bird?

Ans: Anne contrasted herself with a song bird whose wings had been severely detached and who was flying in absolute haziness against the bars of its own pen.

 

16) What does Anne reveal about her mother in the diary?

Ans: Anne discloses her anguish since she feels that her mom doesn't recognize her.

 

17) How does Anne try to keep the diary a secret?

Ans: Anne Frank tried to keep the diary as a secret and she hid it in her father’s brief case so that no one could touch or read it.

 

18) Pick out from paragraph 16 two examples of the inhuman treatment of the Jews by the Nazis.

Ans: Paragraph 16 represents examples of the inhuman treatment of the Jews by the Nazis such as they were conveyed in cows’ trucks to Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp in Southern Poland. The people were put in independent camps and tormented so much that the vast majority of them passed on of weariness.

 

19) Why does the writer call Anne a courageous leader?

Ans: There was nothing to eat, Anne used to strikingly go to the kitchen at the Auschwitz Death camp and asked food. She used to prompt her sister and others to never surrender. So, the writer called Anne a courageous leader.

 

20) Paragraph 18 gives a vivid picture of Anne’s last day in the concentration camp. Pick out all the details of her pathetic physical state.

Ans:  In the last days of the concentration camp Anne and her sister were shipped to Belsen, another camp among Berlina and Hamburg. She was aged, starving, her head bald and her nearly skeleton body wearing the course, impossible to differentiate, striped attire of the Death camp. Her body racked by typhoid fever and she was miserably feeble.

 

21) When and where did Miep find Anne’s diary?

Ans: Anne’s diary was lying in Annexe, and Miep found it there when returned after a week.

22) The writer says that if Miep had read Anne’s diary, she would have destroyed it. Why does the writer think so?

Ans:  According to the writer Miep would have destroyed Anne’s diary if she read it because Anne had written in a tattered gritty way about the assistance given by Miep and others to her family at the danger of their own lives. It was the matter of security to save lives.

 

23) Why does Mr. Frank take many weeks to finish reading the diary?

Ans: Mr. Frank took so many weeks to finish reading the diary because as he read every single page he would broke down and remember his daughter and her struggles.

 

24) What became the mission of Mr. Frank’s life?

Ans: Mr. Frank’s life mission was to take care of Anne’s diary.

 

25) How did Mr. Frank spend the money he got from the publishers?

Ans: The money when Mr. Frank got from the publishers he spent all on gentle causes.

 

26) How did the German audiences respond, to the tragic play of Anne Frank?

Ans: There was silent remorse by the German audience to the tragic play of Anne Frank.

 

27) How did “The Diary of Anne Frank” succeed where German administrators had failed?

Ans: People of German realized the senseless and criminal nature of the Nazi decree. The Diary of Anne Frank prevailing with regards to doing what the executives had neglected to do.

 

28) Why did the people of Berlin choose her name for Anne Frank Home?

Ans: Anne Frank was symbolized the spirit of racial and social tolerance. So the people of Berlin chose her name for Anne Frank Home.

 

II. Close Study

Read the following extracts carefully. Discuss in pairs and then write the answers to the questions given below them.

 

1) “I have read Anne Frank’s Diary”

a) Who is the speaker?

Ans: Professor is the speaker

 

b) To which question is this statement an answer?

Ans: “How do you know the human race is worth saving” said a young student to professor.

 

c) What does the speaker imply in this statement?

Ans: The teacher infers that every race is valuable and it is worth saving.

 

2) “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”

a) Whose words are these?

Ans: These are the words of Anne Frank.

 

b) What does “everything” refers to?

Ans: “Everything” refers to the atrocities committed by the Nazis on the Jews.

 

c) What quality of the speaker is revealed here?

Ans: The speaker discusses the nature of sympathy, love, and pardoning in Anne Frank towards the Germans.

 

III. Paragraph Writing

Discuss in groups of 4 each and answer the following questions. Individually note down the important points for each question and then develop the points into one paragraph answers.

1) How did Anne’s Diary open the eyes of Germans to the viciousness of racial persecution?

Ans:  Anne’s Diary received a remarkable response from the German audience. Packed audiences received the tragedy of Anne Frank in silence heavy with remorse. After the war, it was assessed, of the many Jews extradited from the Netherlands somewhere only few endure. An expected some Jews stayed in the Netherlands, with numerous individuals helped by the Dutch underground. Anne's journal gave them knowledge into a universe of annihilation from the perspective of a youngster caught in a horrible world. An expression of scorn that ought to have destroyed her soul, however actually, it did something contrary to Anne and she clutched her expectation in humankind more emphatically than any time in recent memory.

 

2) From your study of this write- up, what do you understand about Anne Frank’s mind and heart?

Ans: Anne Frank though not very brilliant, took a remarkable interest in people. She was emotional and strong-willed, a problem child who a great talker and fond of nice clothes. Anne kept on battling with the idea concerning how she could be a decent individual when there were endless hindrances in her reality. She expounded persuasively on her disarray over her personality. Anne contemplated the idea of war and humankind and about her function as a youthful Jewish young lady in a difficult world.

 

3) What glimpses of Nazi cruelty do you see in this write- up?

Ans: Hitler gave one enemy of Jewish declaration after another which constrained the Jews to either seek total isolation or move to different spots. The Jews were moved in steers trucks filled path past limit. On appearance, the grown-ups were generally taken straightforwardly to the gas chambers. Anne was fifteen and gotten away from the gas chamber alongside her mom and sister. In any case, starvation, malady, and typhus executed them in the holocaust camps. Human pride was stripped in these camps and consistently was a battle genuinely and inwardly. The Nazis had no sympathy for ladies and youngsters as well. Ladies and kids were kept in extremely disgraceful conditions without legitimate food or clothing.

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