From the Diary of Anne Frank · Class 10 English · First Flight: 135 MCQs with answers

She has never written anything before, and she doubts anyone will be interested in a schoolgirl's musings

She separates inexperience from an assumption about worth, and a full answer needs both halves.

To get all kinds of things off her chest

The need to unburden herself is stated as the stronger of the two motives, and it explains the confiding tone of the entries.

1 and 2 only

She anticipates the third idea and denies it directly: she is not alone, and she lists exactly what she has.

One true friend to confide in

Company is not the problem. She has a great deal of it, and can still say only ordinary everyday things to any of it.

The name Anne gives her diary

Naming the notebook is what turns a one-way record into a conversation with an imagined friend.

Her father at thirty-six and her mother at twenty-five

Anne records the ages exactly, along with her admiration for the most adorable father she has ever seen.

In Frankfurt in 1926

Anne was born three years later, on 12 June 1929, in the same city.

Her candle was lit along with the rest

One small ritual carries the grief, which is characteristic of how briefly Anne records deep feeling.

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The meeting at which teachers decided who would move up a form

The whole class is quaking in its boots before that meeting, and half of it is making bets on the outcome.

Their entire holiday savings

Anne and G.N. laugh themselves silly at the two boys behind them, whose argument runs from morning to night.

Because she talked so much in class

He had been annoyed for ages and had given several warnings before setting the first essay as punishment.

He had a good laugh at her arguments

His amusement is what turns the punishment into a game, and it makes the escalation that follows possible.

Anne's friend, good at poetry, who helped her write the essay in verse

The offer to write the whole essay in verse made Anne jump for joy, and it is what turns the punishment into a performance.

She was allowed to talk and given no more extra homework

She adds that, on the contrary, Mr Keesing is always making jokes these days.

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Recording that she had nine teachers, seven men and two women

She counts and names throughout — teachers, friends, ages, essay titles — which is what makes the diary useful as a record.

For her thirteenth birthday, on 12 June 1942

The first dated entry of the extract, about Mr Keesing, falls eight days later, on 20 June 1942.

Otto Frank, who found that the diary had been saved and had it published

Convinced that it was a unique record, Anne's father arranged its publication in English as The Diary of a Young Girl.

That nobody would want to know the private thoughts of a girl of thirteen schoolgirl

It appears in what became one of the most widely read books in the world, translated into many languages.

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That nobody would want to know the private thoughts of a girl of thirteen schoolgirl

The diary became one of the most widely read books in the world, which is part of why this opening is so often quoted.

Low, restless and unable to decide whether to stay indoors or go out

She fixes the saying to a particular dull afternoon, which is characteristic of the way she reports her own thoughts.

Paper is patient — it cannot interrupt, judge, tire or repeat what it is told

The patience of paper is the whole argument, and it is strengthened by her intention to let nobody read the notebook.

That it may be her own fault that they do not confide in each other

A thirteen-year-old pausing to consider her own share of the blame is the first clear sign of the honesty that runs through the diary.

She wants the diary to be a friend rather than a record

The decision produces the diary's addressed, talking voice, which is why the entries read like letters.

So that Kitty will be able to understand her later stories

She supplies it for her imagined reader's sake, and says plainly that she dislikes doing it.

1 and 2 only

The move was made in stages — father, then mother in September, then Margot in December and Anne in February.

She was set down on the table among the presents on Margot’s birthday

The informal phrase 'plunked down' is a joke at her own expense, and it dates her arrival to February, near Margot's birthday.

She forms strong attachments to adults she likes

Both of them were in tears, and the same capacity for warmth reappears later in her dealings with Mr Keesing.

Her grandmother had fallen ill and had to have an operation

The illness explains why the 1942 celebration was meant to make up for the one before it.

That no one knows how often she thinks of her and still loves her

It is the one moment in the sketch where Anne stops reporting and states a feeling directly.

20 June 1942 — the solemn dedication of her diary

She brings the sketch up to the present and then formally dedicates the diary, which is where the entries proper begin.

Honesty, including honesty about her own faults

She grants what she has, admits her share of the blame for her friendships, and mocks her own notebook.

Doubtful about its value but determined to write it anyway

She states her doubts, dismisses them with 'oh well, it doesn't matter', and begins.

The friend she has wanted for a long time and has not found among people

The waiting has been going on throughout the friendships she describes; the diary is the first thing to fill the gap.

Her father — the most adorable father she has ever seen

Margot is her sister, Kitty is the diary, and the old fogey is Mr Keesing, who appears later in the extract.

A girl with everything except a confidant turns a notebook into the friend she is missing

The summary must hold both halves — the fullness of her life and the single lack — which is exactly how Anne presents it.

Because there are things that need to be said and no safe person to say them to

Anne's account is entirely about the need to unburden herself to something patient, and not at all about record-keeping.

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should include: the two reasons the diary feels strange; the wish to write and the greater need to unburden herself; the saying about paper's patience and the mood in which she recalls it; the absence of one true friend, set against the family and thirty friends she does h…

She and her girlfriends will make it, though about a quarter of the class should be kept back

Her verdict on the 'dummies' is blunt, and she softens it only by adding that teachers are the least predictable creatures alive.

Nine — seven men and two women

The precision of the count is characteristic: Anne notices and records the make-up of the staff room.

An old-fashioned person

The phrase is dismissive rather than hostile, and it sits oddly beside the affection she shows for him by the end of the entry.

She wondered what could possibly be written about it and decided to worry later

She jotted the title in her notebook, tucked it in her bag and tried to keep quiet, which is exactly what a student does.

That her classmates talked far more than she did

She never blames her classmates. Her defence rests on nature, effort and inheritance.

1 and 2 only

She had in fact been given several warnings, which is why the essay was set in the first place.

Anne talked her way through the very next lesson

Winning the argument changed nothing about her behaviour, which is part of the comedy of the episode.

Two whole lessons

During the third lesson he had finally had enough, and set the title that was meant to defeat her.

That Mr Keesing was playing a joke on her and she would make sure the joke was on him

The decision about who is being laughed at is the turning point of the whole episode.

A mother duck and a father swan whose three ducklings were pecked to death by the father for quacking too much

It is the father swan who kills them, which makes the poem a pointed joke about a punishing parent — or teacher.

Strict, but not humourless — he punished repeatedly and then laughed at himself

Three punishments show the strictness; reading the poem aloud to other classes shows the humour.

She is quick, argumentative and unwilling to be humiliated, but honest about running out of ideas

She admits that her ingenuity was nearly exhausted, and then finds a way round the problem with a friend's help.

1 and 2 only

The poem ended the punishments altogether: she was allowed to talk and given no more extra homework.

A joke made without malice can end a quarrel that punishment could not

Anne turns the joke round and Mr Keesing enjoys it; neither of them loses, and the war between them simply stops.

C.N. and Jacques argued about it from morning to night while Anne was confident of passing

The contrast between the two boys' anxiety and Anne's amusement is what makes the opening of the entry funny.

He taught maths, and the punishments were for talking too much in class

Anne names him as the old fogey of a maths master, and the offence is talking — the subject of all three essays.

A quarrel settled by a shared joke, with affection on both sides

She is allowed to talk, he is always making jokes, and the description 'old fogey' now reads as teasing rather than complaint.

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should include: the reason for the punishment, her talking, after several warnings; the first title and her three-part argument, including inherited traits; his laughter; the second title after she talked again; the third, mocking title; her decision to turn the joke round…

A sociable schoolgirl with a warm family and many friends, lacking only a confidant

Everything in the extract — the bets, the teachers, the friends — describes an ordinary school life, and the only thing missing is someone to confide in.

Her admission that it may be her own fault that she and her friends do not confide in each other

Turning the criticism on herself, at thirteen, is what makes her a writer a reader can trust.

Her habit of gently mocking herself and her own project

The joke is aimed at her own undertaking, which is where most of her humour is directed.

1 and 2 only

The humour is constant, and most of it is at her own expense, so the third statement contradicts the extract.

In July 1942, in hidden rooms in her father's office building in Amsterdam

The hiding began the month after this extract, which is what makes the schoolroom quarrels in it so striking.

Two years, until they were betrayed and transported to the camps

Betrayal rather than accident ended the hiding, and the diary's final entry is dated 1 August 1944.

Right about the ordinary case, but wrong about her own diary

A two-part answer earns the marks: most such diaries interest nobody, and hers is an exception for reasons that can be named.

1 and 2 only

It was published after the war by her father, who was the only member of the group to survive.

A sense of humour about herself — she jokes about getting to Hollywood

The joke is characteristic: she notices how she looks and immediately makes fun of the idea.

Anne wrote it in Dutch, and it was later translated into many languages

The family had moved to Holland in the 1930s, and the diary was written in Dutch before being translated.

Make claims and prove each from the text

Examiners reward evidence: the admission that the fault may be hers, the stiff-backed notebook, the nine teachers, the tears with Mrs Kuperus.

She can dislike someone, argue with him and end up fond of him

The old fogey of the first mention is, by the end, a man who is always making jokes — and she records the change without comment.

Because there are things that must be said and no safe person to say them to

Anne's own account is entirely about needing to unburden herself to something patient, not about leaving a record.

Her honesty, including about her own faults

Everything else in her writing — the humour, the precision, the trust she inspires — rests on it.

Precision — nine teachers, seven men and two women

Only the first pairs a quality with evidence that actually demonstrates it; the others misattach or belong to another lesson.

The extract is the last stretch of an ordinary life, and its ordinariness is what gives it force

Dated June 1942, it precedes the hiding by weeks, and contains nothing but school life.

The notebook was not destroyed when the rooms were raided, and one member of the group survived to find it

Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that the diary had been saved, and it was he who had it published.

An ordinary, gifted schoolgirl whose attention to the world was unusual

The extract shows the ordinariness and the gift together, and contains no persecution and no plan to publish.

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should make claims and prove them, using at least four of: sociability and the thirty friends set against the lack of a confidant; honesty, with the admission that the fault may be hers or the exhausted ingenuity; humour, with the stiff-backed notebook or the birthday-pres…

She is amused by her own project and notices the gap between a thing and its title

The self-mockery is present from the first page, and it is one of the qualities that makes her voice so readable.

It prevents her complaint from being mistaken for ordinary loneliness

By granting everything she has, she isolates the one thing she lacks, which makes the observation exact rather than self-pitying.

Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A

The form follows directly from the decision: once there is someone to write to, the writing becomes talk rather than record.

She is interested in being understood by a friend, not in writing autobiography

The facts are a means to intimacy rather than the point of the exercise, which is why she gets them over with quickly.

That the family would go into hiding within weeks

The gap between her knowledge and ours gives the cheerful opening a weight it cannot have had for the writer.

It turns recording into conversation, so the entries read as talk

Having someone to address changes the grammar of the whole book: the entries are letters rather than notes.

A is true, but R is false

She has parents and a sister, and says so plainly. The assertion about confiding holds; the reason is false.

It examines its own purpose before it begins recording anything

Before a single event is recorded, Anne has questioned the value of diaries, defined her loneliness and invented a reader.

The diary begins before the hiding, and the reason she gives is that she has no true friend

The dedication is dated 20 June 1942, weeks before the family went into hiding, and the stated reason is the absence of a confidant.

A loss and a beginning stand side by side, and the diary starts in the space the grandmother left

The candle lit at the birthday and the dedication of the notebook fall within a few lines of each other, and the arrangement is quietly moving.

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should support each trait from the text: honesty, with her admission that the fault may be hers; precision, with the list of what she has; humour, with the stiff-backed notebook or the birthday-present line; affection, with her father, Mrs Kuperus or her grandmother; refle…

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should explain the saying — paper does not interrupt, judge or repeat; the circumstances in which she recalls it; how it fits her particular loneliness; the added protection of an unread notebook; a counter-argument that paper cannot respond; and a judgement supported by h…

It quietly links her one academic worry to the teacher she is quarrelling with

The diary never remarks on the coincidence, but Mr Keesing teaches exactly the subject she finds hardest, which gives their quarrel an extra edge.

Finding arguments solid enough to prove that talking is necessary

She notes that rambling on and spacing the words out is something anybody could manage — length was never the problem.

It excuses her without denying the charge, since inheritance cannot be helped

She grants that she talks and promises to try, and then removes the possibility of a cure — an argument that is hard to answer and easy to laugh at.

That her talking was beyond correction — a joke about the failure of the first punishment

Incorrigible means something that cannot be corrected, so the title concedes defeat and complains about it at the same time.

His patience was running out, and by the third he had decided to embarrass rather than correct her

A plain description, then one calling her incurable, then a title the whole class laughed at — the sequence is a temper gradually giving way.

It invites the teacher to see himself as a father who kills his children for talking

The joke is aimed squarely at the person who set the title, which is exactly what Anne had decided to do.

She refuses to be humiliated, and joining the laughter is the first step in turning it round

Laughing first and answering in verse afterwards is how she takes control of a joke that was aimed at her.

That he did not mind being the target of the joke

Sharing a joke against yourself is the clearest possible way of accepting it, and it is what ends the quarrel.

Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A

Both are true, but who helped with the verse does not explain why the punishments failed to silence her.

He punishes her three times and then rewards the joke made at his expense

His shift from escalating punishment to open amusement is exactly the unpredictability she had complained of.

It shows her honesty — she is not pretending the third essay was easy

A less honest writer would present the poem as effortless. Anne admits that she had run nearly dry and needed a new idea.

It records an ordinary school life that was about to end within weeks

The entry is dated 20 June 1942, and the family went into hiding the following month; nothing in it anticipates that.

The episode would have become a simple account of punishment rather than of two people getting on

The ending depends entirely on his response, which is why Anne begins that sentence with the word 'luckily'.

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should cover Anne's qualities — inventiveness, the quality of her argument, honesty about her exhausted ingenuity, refusal of humiliation without malice — and Mr Keesing's — strictness, his laughter at the first essay, his acceptance of the poem, reading it to other classe…

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should draw on both halves: the schoolgirl — the bets, her worry about maths, her verdict on the class, her talking; and the writer — identifying the real difficulty, the three-part argument, honesty about her exhausted ingenuity, accepting Sanne's help, and her sense of a…

They read as conversation, with asides, jokes and anticipated objections

Once there is somebody to write to, the writing takes on the manners of talk — which is why the diary reads like a letter.

Nobody would credit that a girl of thirteen could be so entirely on her own

She raises the objection herself and answers it, which is a conversational move rather than a diarist's.

Shape and hindsight — it cannot be arranged towards an ending

Written forwards, it cannot know what will matter, which is precisely why it preserves what a memoir would tidy away.

Immediacy and honesty — including sentences the writer would later have deleted

The line about nobody caring for a schoolgirl's musings survives only because she could not know what was coming.

Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A

Every ordinary line is read twice — as Anne wrote it, and in the light of what the reader knows came next.

It records exactly what was ordinary about a life that was about to be destroyed

The textbook chooses the ordinary part on purpose: the loss is measured by what was lost, not by what was suffered.

She turns a promotion meeting and a punishment essay into comedy

History supplied the subject, but the quality of the observation and the humour belong to her.

That Anne intended her diary to be read by others one day

She says plainly that she is not planning to let anyone else read the notebook, which is part of why she can be so frank in it.

It records ordinary daily experience from inside, as it happened, rather than as history

Its value comes from the everyday texture — food, quarrels, school, feelings — recorded without knowing how anything would end.

A is false, but R is true

It contains neither; that is the point of it. The reason explains why the ordinariness matters.

It makes her account feel exact and trustworthy

Reporting the world precisely lets the feeling arrive through the detail rather than through statements about herself.

She began it because she had no confidant, weeks before the family went into hiding

The stated reason is loneliness, and the extract's content is school life; the historical importance came later and was never her purpose.

It is well written, funny and self-aware, and would be readable even without its history

The extract set in the textbook has no history in it at all, and it still holds a reader — which is the strongest evidence for the claim.

A girl who was sure nobody would want her musings turned out to be the best writer in the room

It holds together her own doubt, the quality of her writing and the irony of her fame — which is what the question is really about.

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should include: the ordinary content of the extract — promotion meeting, bets, Mr Keesing, the poem; its date of June 1942; the hiding in July 1942, the betrayal and Anne's death; the reader's knowledge supplying what the text does not; the double reading of cheerful lines…

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Content 3 · Expression 2 · Accuracy 1. Content should include: why her doubt was reasonable; the quality of her writing, with an example; her honesty, with an example; the historical events — hiding, betrayal, her death, her father's survival and the publication; the diary's later fame; and the point that the sentence…