10th class-cbse english (NCERT BOOK-First Flight)(short answers) chapter-4 (From the diary of Anne frank)( Anne frank)

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Why did Anne keep a diary?

Ans1) Anne had many ideas and views that she wanted to share. But she had no real friends. So she decided to keep a diary and tell all her secrets to it.

Q2) Explain “teachers are the most unpredictable creatures”.

Ans2) When result was about to be declared, Anne was thinking that there are so many dummies in the class that about a quarter of the class should be kept back. But she believed that no one can predict result as it depended on the moods of the teacher and teachers are the most unpredictable creatures.

Q3) How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her first essay?

Ans3) Anne tried to justify that talking is a student’s trait. She tried to control many times. But she failed because she had inherited this trait from her mother. She could do nothing about the inherited trait as her mother was more talkative than her.

Q4) What was the last essay for Anne and write its result?

Ans4) Anne was tired of writing on the same topic again and again. She wanted to write the last essay differently to covey her message to the teacher. Anne was too worried. Her friend Sanne came to her help to write it in verse. Thus she wrote it like a poem. The teacher was impressed.

Some more questions for practice.

Answer following questions in about 40 words.

Q1) Why did Mr.keesing punish Anne?

Q2) In what way a diary is different from a real friend?

Q3) Give two instances to show that Anne was in good books of her teachers?

Q4) Why was the whole class quacking in boots?

Q5) Anne Frank felt suffocated. How?

Q6) How did students conduct in the class?