Ans. Anne Did Not Have A True Friend To Whom She Could Confide, Hence She Started

From The Diary Of Anne Frank
Q1. Why did Anne prefer confiding in her diary?

Ans. Anne did not have a true friend to whom she could confide, hence she started
writing a diary. Moreover, she knew that paper had more patience than people and her
secrets would be safe in a diary. She could trust a diary more than people.
Q2.How did Anne want her diary to be different?
Ans. Anne did not want to jot down the facts in her diary, the way most people do. She
wanted the diary to be her friend. She called it a kitty. She wrote about her feelings and
experiences in it. It was a mature work, reflecting deep insight
Q3. Why was the entire class quaking in its boots?

Ans. The time for declaring the annual results was coming closer. Soon a meeting
would be held. The teachers would decide whom to pass and whom to retain in the
same class. That is why the whole class was quaking in its boots.
Q4Why did Mr Keesing assign Anne to write an essay entitled ‘A Chatterbox’?
Ans. There was only one teacher with whom Anne was not getting along well. He was
Mr Keesing. The maths teacher was annoyedwith her because she talked too much in
the class. After several warnings, he gave her extra homework like a sort of
punishment. She was assigned to write an essay on the topic, ‘A Chatterbox’.
Q5. What does Anne write in her first essay?

Ans. In her first essay, titled ‘A Chatterbox’, Anne wanted to come up with convincing
arguments to prove the necessity of talking. She wrote three pages and argued that
talking was a student’s trait and she would do her best to keep it under control.
.Long Question
Q1. Why does Anne say:‘’Paper has more patience than people.” Elucidate.
Ans. Anne Frank felt lonely in the world. She had loving parents, an elder sister and a
number of friends. But she was not intimate with anyone. She could talk to them about
common everyday matters. But she could not express her inner feelings to them. She
wanted a patient listener with a sympathetic heart. But she found that people had no
patience to listen to her. She could not relieve the feelings of her heart to anyone. Anne
wanted to lighten the burden of ideas in her heart. So she decided to maintain a diary. A
diary is not a human being. It has a lot more patience than man. One can express one’s
thoughts freely. The diary does not get bored. It is a true friend. It never rejects the offer
of friendship. That is why Anne Frank says that paper has more patience than people.
The Ball Poem

by John Berryman
Question 1. How does the boy feel at the loss of his ball?
Answer:The boy is very much troubled at the loss of his ball. He experiences grief at the
loss of his much loved possession. Like a statue, he keeps staring at the ball with his
desperate eyes.
Question 2.“Money is external”. What does the poet mean by this expression?
Answer: Money is external means that it cannot buy memories, nor can it replace the
things that we love, the things that really matter.
Question 3.`He senses first responsibility’—what responsibility is referred to here?
Ans. The responsibility referred to here is how to stand up or bear the loss through self-
understanding and trying to console oneself on his own as the boy who lost his ball was
trying to do.
Question 4. Why did the poet not console the boy?
Ans. The poet did not console the boy for two reasons—One, the boy was too shocked
and grief-stricken to listen to any sense. Second, the poet also observed that the boy
was trying to stand up or bear the loss on his own through self-understanding which is
much more reflective and lasting. The poet’s or anybody else’s consoling would not be
that effective.
Question 5. Why did the boy feel so sad at the loss of his ball?
Answer: When the boy lost the ball, he plunged in grief. He stood staring down the
harbour where his ball was lost. The boy was affected profoundly by the loss of his ball
because it had been with him for a long time. It was linked to the memories of the days
when he played with it.
Question 6. Why is it important for everyone to experience loss and to stand up after it?
Answer. It is important for everyone to experience loss and to stand up after it in order
to be strong and to get on with life. One needs to stay strong no matter how much it
hurts inside. Staying strong is the only way to survive. Moreover, one needs to learn to
accept and let go and not cling to something that they can never have. One should
understand that the past is gone and it will never come back. Experiencing loss
sometimes helps us to grow up and face hardships, like loss .

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From The Diary Of Anne Frank

Q1. Why did Anne prefer confiding in her diary?

Q3. Why was the entire class quaking in its boots?

Q5. What does Anne write in her first essay?

The Ball Poem

Question 3.`He senses first responsibility’—what responsibility is referred to here?

Question 4. Why did the poet not console the boy?

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