NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter 4 From the Diary of Anne Frank
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Q. “Paper has more patience than people’ I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, 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 backed notebook grandly referred to as a ‘diary’, unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won’t make a bit of difference.”
(i) ‘Paper has more patience than people.’ What does this imply? This implies, that Anne:
(ii) Pick out the emoticon which clearly brings out the meaning of ‘listless’ as used in the extract?
(iii) Pick the option that is ODD with reference to the meaning of ‘patience’.
(iv) If the diary were a ‘real friend’, what qualities would Anne expect it to have? Pick the option that lists these correctly.
(1) optimistic
(2) good listener
(3) confidant
(4) energetic
(5) non-judgemental
(6) outgoing
(7) ambitious
Choose the correct option from the following:
(v) Pick out the sentence that brings out the meaning of ‘brooding’ as used in the extract?
Ans: (i) (b) felt that she could pour her heart out on paper without any hindrance.
(ii) (c) Option (iii)
(iii) (a) Option (i)
(iv) (c) 2, 3 and 5
(v) (c) He was brooding over the matter and took a long time to decide.
Q Let me put it more clearly, since no one will believe that a thirteen-year-old girl is completely alone in the world. And I’m not. I have loving parents and a sixteen-year-old sister, and there are about thirty people I can call friends. I have a family, loving aunts and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything, except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem. Maybe it’s may fault that we don’t confide in each other. In any case, that’s just how things are, and unfortunately they’re not liable to change. This why I’ve started the diary.
(i) Why was Anne Frank disturbed even when she had loving parents, relatives and friends?
(ii) Why did Anne Frank decide to write a diary?
(iii) Which word in the extract means ‘unluckily’?
(iv) To confide in somebody is to ………………… .
(v) What things according to Anne are not ‘liable to change’?
Ans: (i) (b) Due to lack of a true friend.
(ii) (d) To share her secrets with a trusted source.
(iii) (a) unfortunately.
(iv) (c) tell someone your secrets or personal information.
(v) (d) Anne’s inability to confide in a friend
Q. “Mr Keesing had a good laugh at my arguments, but when I proceeded to talk my way through the next lesson, he assigned me a second essay. This time it was supposed to be on ‘An Incorrigible Chatterbox’. I handed it in, and Mr Keesing had nothing to complain about for two whole lessons. However, during the third lesson he’d finally had enough. “Anne Frank, as a punishment for talking in class, write an essay entitled-‘Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox’.”
(i) What convincing argument was made by Anne?
(ii) What does ‘had a good laugh’ imply, in the context of Mr. Keesing? It means that he:
(iii) Based on this extract, pick the option with the list of words that best describe Mr Keesing.
(iv) Why do you think Mr Keesing chose the title- ‘An Incorrigible Chatterbox’ - for Anne, to write on? This was so because he expected:
(v) How did Anne feel when she was punished the third time by Mr Keesing?
Ans. (i) (c) She had inherited the trait from her mother, so couldn’t stop being talkative.
(ii) (d) realised the humour in it and was amused.
(iii) (b) strict and innovative
(iv) (b) that this would embarrass Anne and would check her indiscipline.
(v) (c) She was worried as she had run out of original ideas for her essay.
Activity :
Q. Do you keep a diary? Given below under ‘A’ are some terms we use to describe a written record of personal experience. Can you match them with their descriptions under ‘B’? (You may look up the terms in a dictionary if you wish.)
| A | B |
| (i) Journal | (a) A book with a separate space or page for each day, in which you write down your thoughts and feelings or what has happened on that day |
| (ii) Diary | (b) A full record of a journey, a period of time, or an event, written every day |
| (iii) Log | (c) A record of a person’s own life and experiences (usually, a famous person) |
| (iv) Memoir(s) | (d) A written record of events with times and dates, usually official |
Ans: (i)-(b), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(d), (iv)-(c).
Q. Here are some entries from personal records. Use the definitions above to decide which of the entries might be from a diary, a journal, a log or a memoir.
(i) I woke up very late today and promptly got a scolding from Mum! I can’t help it — how can I miss the FIFA World Cup matches ?
Ans: Diary
(ii) 10:30 a.m. Went to the office of the Director 01:00 p.m. Had lunch with Chairman 05:45 p.m. Received Rahul at the airport 09:30 p.m. Dinner at home
Ans: Log
(iii) The ride to Ooty was uneventful. We rested for a while every 50 km or so, and used the time to capture the magnificent landscape with my HandyCam. From Ooty we went on to Bangalore. What a contrast! The noise and pollution of this once-beautiful city really broke my heart.
Ans: Journal
(iv) This is how Raj Kapoor found me — all wet and ragged outside R.K. Studios. He was then looking for just someone like this for a small role in Mera Naam Joker and he casted me on the spot. The rest, as they say, is history!
Ans: Memoir
Oral Comprehension Check :
Q. What makes writing in a diary a strange experience for Anne Frank?
Ans: Writing a diary is strange for Anne Frank because she has never written anything like this before. She also thinks that no one will be interested in the musings of a thirteen year old school girl.
Q. Why does Anne want to keep a diary?
Ans: Anne wants to keep a diary because she feels like writing and also wants to get all kinds of things off her chest. She doesn’t have a friend and so needs a replacement for it.
Q. Why did Anne think she could confide more in her diary than in people?
Ans: Anne felt that paper has more patience than people. Since she does not have any friend, the diary would be the one she could confide in.
Q. Why does Anne provide a brief sketch of her life?
Ans: Since no one would understand a word of Anne’s stories to Kitty, her diary, if she were to plunge right in, so she thinks of writing a brief sketch of her life.
Q. What tells you that Anne loved her grandmother?
Ans: When Anne’s grandmother falls ill, she did not celebrate her birthday and when the grandmother passes away, she writes in her diary that she often thinks about her and still loves her. This tells of Anne’s love for her grandmother.
Q. Why was Mr. Keesing annoyed with Anne? What did he ask her to do?
Ans: Mr. Keesing was annoyed with Anne Frank because she talked too much in the class. As punishment, he asks her to write a three page essay on Chatter box.
Q. How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her essay?
Ans: Anne justified her being a chatter box by saying that talking is a student’s trait, and also, since her mother talked as much as she did, there’s not much one can do about her inherited traits.
Q. Do you think Mr. Keesing was a strict teacher?
Ans: No, Mr. Keesing was not a strict teacher.
Q. What made Mr. Keesing allow Anne to talk in class?
Ans. Anne was given an essay to write the third time for talking in the class. This time with the help of a friend she wrote a funny poem about a quacking duck. Mr. Keesing took the joke well and since then did not stop her from talking in class.
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