From the Diary of Anne Frank — Class 10 MCQs with Answers

From the Diary of Anne Frank — important questions & MCQs with answers (Class 10 English)

6 solved questions from this chapter's difficulty levels, each with its answer and explanation. Tap an option to check yourself.

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1. Q1 of 6Easy

   Anne Frank was a ___ girl.

   ABritishBAmerican-bornCFrenchDJewish-German
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   Answer: Jewish-German

   Explanation: Born in Germany, lived in Amsterdam, of Jewish descent.

2. Q2 of 6Easy

   Anne named her diary:

   ADaisyBKittyCAnnieDSophie
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   Answer: Kitty

   Explanation: She addressed her diary as 'Kitty', her imaginary friend.

3. Q3 of 6Medium

   Why did Anne argue that talking was an inherited trait?

   ATo answer the punishment with a reason hard to dismissBBecause she genuinely believed she could not stopCTo blame her mother for her behaviourDBecause she had read it in a science book
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   Answer: To answer the punishment with a reason hard to dismiss

   Explanation: The first essay is an argument, not an apology.

4. Q4 of 6Medium

   What does the extract show about Anne's life at this point?

   AThe war in Europe has not yet begun at allBOrdinary school life, before the family goes into hidingCThe family is already living in the secret annexeDAnne has stopped attending school entirely
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   Answer: Ordinary school life, before the family goes into hiding

   Explanation: The extract sits on the near side of the break.

5. Q5 of 6Hard

   At Anne's 1942 birthday, 'Grandma's candle was lit along with the rest'. What does this show?

   AGrandma had come from Aachen for the partyBThe family could not afford to buy new candlesCIt was a Dutch custom that Anne was made to followDGrandma, though dead, was still loved and included
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   Answer: Grandma, though dead, was still loved and included

   Explanation: Grandma died in January 1942; Anne writes 'No one knows how often I think of her and still love her', and her candle was lit at the birthday.

6. Q6 of 6Hard

   What does Anne's remark about thirty friends establish for the reader?

   AThat loneliness is not the same thing as being aloneBThat she was the most popular girl in her classCThat she had no time for her familyDThat she counted her friends carefully
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   Answer: That loneliness is not the same thing as being alone

   Explanation: The diary answers a need that company had not met.

From the Diary of Anne Frank notes: key concepts (Class 10 English)

The prescribed extract is not from the hiding years — it is Anne at school, explaining why she started a diary and telling the story of Mr Keesing and the essays. That ordinariness is deliberate, and most theme questions turn on understanding why.

'Paper has more patience than people'

Anne's opening remark, and it is about being HEARD rather than about a preference for writing. She had things to say that no listener would sit through.

Kitty

She names the diary Kitty and addresses it directly, turning an object into a listener. The diary is a solution to loneliness, which is why it needs a name.

Loving parents, thirty friends, no confidant

She says she has loving parents, a sister, and about thirty people she could call friends — and still no one to confide in. The distinction between company and confidence is the point.

The sketch of her life

She writes a short account of her background first, because without it 'no one would understand a word'. She is building a reader who needs the context.

Background facts

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1929; her sister Margot was three years older. The family moved to Holland in 1933.

Why 1933 matters

The move was flight from Nazi persecution after Hitler came to power, not an ordinary relocation — the danger that shapes the whole diary begins there.

The Jewish Lyceum

From 1941 Anne attended the Jewish Lyceum, because Jewish children were required to attend Jewish schools.

Mr Keesing

Her maths teacher, annoyed that she talked too much in class. He set her escalating punishment essays on the subject.

The three essay titles

'A Chatterbox', then 'An Incorrigible Chatterbox', then 'Quack, quack, quack, said Mistress Chatterbox' — the third is where he turns to sarcasm.

The poem

Her friend Sanne, who was good at poetry, helped her write the third essay in verse: a mother duck, a father swan and three ducklings, whose father bites them to death for quacking too much.

How it ends

Keesing takes the joke, reads the poem to other classes, and stops setting her extra work — she wins by wit rather than by obedience.

Why the extract is set at school

It establishes the ordinary life the rest of the diary loses. Without the ordinary, the loss has no measure — and the reader's knowledge of what comes next supplies the chill.

Anne's voice

Self-awareness expressed lightly: she is funny about herself while being serious about being alone. 'Someone like me' shows she does not see herself as a diary-keeping sort of person.