NCERT Solutions Class 10 English (First Flight)
The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 10 English (First Flight) Chapter – 4 From the Diary of Anne Frank has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.
Chapter – 4 (From the Diary of Anne Frank)
Oral Comprehension Check
1. What makes writing in a diary a strange experience for Anne Frank?
Answer – Writing in a diary was a strange experience for Anne Frank as she never had a diary and it was a gift on her 13th birthday. She considered it her best friend on which she relied the most and with whom she shared all her ups and downs.
2. Why does Anne want to keep a diary?
Answer – Anne wants to keep a diary as she didn’t have friend.
3. Why did Anne think she could confide more in her diary than in people.
Answer – Anne felt that paper had more patience than people to listen to her plight. So, it was easier for her to write all kind of thoughts which she had in her mind. Her personal diary was not meant for any one else to read.
Oral Comprehension Check
1. Why does Anne provide a brief sketch of her life?
Answer – Even though she disliked doing so, Anne provides a brief sketch of her life since no one would understand a word of her musings if she were to jump right in.
2. What tells you that Anne loved her grandmother?
Answer – Anne’s grandmother had fallen ill and had to be operated upon. Therefore, Anne’s birthday passed with little celebration. Her grandmother died the next year. Anne wrote in her diary that no one knew how often She thought of her grandmother and still loved her.
Oral Comprehension Check
1. Why was Mr Keesing annoyed with Anne? What did he ask her to do?
Answer – Mr. Keesing was annoyed with Anne because she was very talkative. He punished her by giving her extra homework to write essays to keep her silent and the topics always related to her nature.
2. How did Anne justify her being a chatterbox in her essay?
Answer – Anne justified her being a chatterbox in her essay by explaining that it is due to her mother who was also very talkative and nobody could do anything about their inherited traits.
3. Do you think Mr Keesing was a strict teacher?
Answer – No, Mr Keesing was not a bad or strict teacher because a teacher did something for the welfare of his students. Any teacher would be annoyed if children keep on talking in the class. Secondly, if he had been strict he would not have laughed at Anne’s funny arguments.
4. What made Mr Keesing allow Anne to talk in class?
Answer – Anne’s last essay in the form of a poem showed Mr Keesing the lighter side of a naughty child. It helped bridge the generation gap between the teacher and the student.
Thinking about the Text
1. Was Anne right when she Said that the world would not be interested in the musings of a 13 year old girl?
Answer – No, Anne was not right when she said that the world would not be interestedin the musings of a 13 year old girl.
2. There are some examples of diary or journal entries in the ‘Before You Read’ section. Compare these with what Anne writes in her diary. What language was the diary originally written in? In what way is Anne’s diary different?
Answer – Anne’s diary was entirely different from most of the examples given before the text. It was somewhere closer to the memoir in which the name of Raj Kapoor has been mentioned. It was originally written in Dutch. It has informal tone which exudes the careful nature of a teenager.
3. Why does Anne need to give a brief sketch about her family? Does she treat ‘Kitty’ as an insider or an outsider?
Answer – Anne gave an introduction of her family in the ‘diary’ because it was hard to make other realise that a 13 years old teenager could write about her loneliness. Kitty was an ‘outsider’ which was gifted by her parents on her 13th birthday but she considered it her best friend and treated it as an insider.
4. How does Anne feel about her father, her grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr Keesing? What do these tell you about her?
Answer – Anne has fond of memories of her father, grandmother, Mrs Kuperus and Mr Keesing, who have left indelible impressions on her mind and affected her life a lot. The way she represents all of them in her diary reveals that Anne was very good at understanding people and at developing interpersonal relations.
5. What does Anne write in her first essay?
Answer – Mr Keesing asked her to write an essay on the topic ‘A Chatterbox’ as punishment. In the essay : she accepted the drawbacks of being talkative but argued that it was in her genes as her mother was also very talkative. It was difficult to give up the habit and it was also a student’s trait. Even Mr Keesing laughed at the argument she had given.
6. Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable?
Answer – Anne took perfect example of Mr Keesing as an unpredictable teacher because Mr Keesing seemed to be indifferent towards Annes’ behaviour. Earlier he laughed but later he allowed Anne to talk in the class post reading her essays.
7. What do these statements tell you about Anne Frank as a person?
(i) We don’t seem to be able to get any closer and that’s the problem. Maybe it’s my fault that we don’t confide in each other.
(ii) I don’t want, to jcft; down the facts in this diary the way most people would, but I want the diary to be my friend.
(iii) Margot went to Holland in December and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot.
(iv) If you ask me, there are so many dummies that about a quarter of the class should be kept back, but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on Earth.
(v) Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking.
Answer –
(i) Anne is reserved.
(ii) She is self-confident and inventive.
(iii) She is humorous as well.
(iv) Anne is intelligent.
(v) She has a sense of propriety and convincing attitude.
Thinking about Language
I. Look at the following words.
| headmistress, long-awaited, homework, notebook, stiff-backed, outbursts |
These words are compound words. They are made up of two or more words. Compound words can be:
- nouns : headmistress, homework, notebook, outbursts
- adjectives : long-awaited, stiff-backed
- verbs : sleep-walk, baby-sit
Match the compound words under ‘A’ with their meanings under ‘B’. Use each in sentence.
| A | B |
|---|---|
| 1. Heartbreaking | – obeying and respecting the law |
| 2. Homesick | – think about pleasant things, forgetting about the present |
| 3. Blockhead | – something produced by a person, machine or organisation |
| 4. Law-abiding | – producing great sadness |
| 5. Overdo | – an occasion when vehicles/machines stop working |
| 6. Daydream | – an informal word which means a very stupid person |
| 7. Breakdown | – missing home and family very much |
| 8. Output | – do something to an excessive degree |
Answer –
