Questions & Answers on 'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank

Questions & Answers on 'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank

Q6. Who was Mr. Keesing? Why was Anne was punished by him? How did she convinced Mr. Keesing of her ‘point of view’?        

Ans. Mr. Keesing was Anne’s Math teacher. He was always crossed at her because she talked too much. After several warnings, he assigned her extra homework i.e. to write an essay on the subject "A Chatterbox."   It was very difficult for her to write on such a topic. Her friend Sanne was good at poetry, so she offered her to write whole topic in poetry.

Then Anne jumped with joy.  She understood that Mr. Keesing was trying to play a practical joke on her with that ridiculous topic and she was to make it sure that the joke was on him. So she finished the poem. “…It was about a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings that were bitten to death by the father because they quacked too much. Luckily, Keesing took the joke the right way. He read the poem to the class, adding his own comments, and to several other classes as well. ..”

Since then she had been allowed to talk and had not been assigned any extra homework. On the contrary, Keesing was always making jokes these days.

Q7. Who was Hello Silberberg and how did Anne come to know

about him ? Tell something more about their friendship.

Ans.    The boy Hello and Anne came to know about each other during the past week. He told her about his life. He comes from Gelsenkirchen and is living with his grandparents. His parents are in Belgium. Hello used to have a girlfriend named Ursula. Anne knew her too. She was perfectly sweet and quite boring. The boy also tells Anne that his grandmother did not like that he should meet Anne, who also advised him not to meet her in that case.

But he says, "All's fair in love and war." They continue meeting each other. One night, when both of them came late at night, her father was very angry and told her be present at home not so late. Anne did not love Hello, rather she loved Peter and wanted to marry her.

Q8. What was a ‘call up notice’? What happened if it was not respected?

Ans.   ‘A call-up notice’ was a government order to report to the military or the police. Usually, the Jews were called to the Jewish Church and then they were to be sent to the concentration camps. If anyone resisted (opposed), he would be forcibly takes from his home. ‘Concentration Camps’ were established by the Nazis to persecute (maltreat) the Jews. Those places were guided prison camps for civilians, prisoners and minorities, etc.

Q9. Why did the Frank family expedite (speed up) their going to a hiding place?

Ans. One day, the Frank family received a ‘call up notice’. Anne’s father was not home. So her mother at once went to meet Mr.van Daan, her father’s business partner, to discuss the matter. Initially they thought that the notice was meant for M. Frank. But later on, they came to know that it was for Margot, the eldest daughter of the Frank family. Margot was sixteen at that time.  They wanted the girls of her age to shift them to their own places. It affected the Frank family very much.  Visions of lonely cells and concentration camps emerged (appeared) in her mind. Anne & Margot waited for their mother in the living room. She had gone to ask Mr. van Daan if they could move to their hiding place the next day.

So the ‘call up notice’ that came for Margot expedited (sped up) their decision to go to a secret place for hiding .

Q10. Describe how Anne and Margot packed their important luggage before leaving their house for the hiding place. How did they take their luggage while going to the secret Annex?

Ans.Then Margot and Anne started packing their important things in satchels. Anne packed up her diary first and then ‘curlers’ handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb and some old letters. The thought of going into hiding was dominating (overpowering) her mind. She didn’t care to pack clothes and memories were more important to her.

  While leaving their house, they wrapped (covered) themselves in more clothes. They would not dare to leave their house with suitcase full of clothes.

Anne was wearing two undershirts, three pairs of underpants, a dress and over that a shirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more.

She was suffocating in a way. Margot also stuffed her school bag with books. They closed the door at seven thirty. Anne said good bye to her cat, Moortje.

 They were Anne, her father and mother. Each of them was having a satchel (a kind of bag) and a shopping bag and those were filled to the brim with different items.