Worksheetsfrom The Diary of a Young Girl (HRW)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
In her diary entry for January 13, 1943, Anne says that the residents of the Annex are “luckier than millions of people” because they
are living in Holland instead of Germany.
know the end of the war is nowhere in sight.
are safe and have money to buy food.
have jobs filling packages with powdered gravy.
You can infer that one reason that Anne wants to “get away, away from everything” in line 57 is that she
has little or no privacy in the Annex.
hates everyone living in the Annex.
dislikes the bow and arrows her mother uses.
would like to live with the Van Daan family.
In lines 141–142, who does Anne refer to when she describes a dream in which “they come in the middle of the night to take us away”?
warehouse workers
her father and mother
the Allies
Nazi soldiers
From Anne’s “Ode to My Fountain Pen” in lines 169–226, you can infer that she was
angry about the loss of her fountain pen.
proud to own a fountain pen.
unable to write with a fountain pen.
hoping to get a new fountain pen.
Which of Anne’s statements suggest that she is becoming more grown up?
“... at the moment there’s no room in my head for things like that.”
“I want to take a fresh look at things and form my own opinion...”
“Every time she ...laughs at me, it’s all I can do to control myself.”
“...if I live here much longer, I’ll turn into a dried-up old beanstalk.”
Insolent means
disrespectful.
sleepy.
hopeless.
clever.
What is a reproach?
a repetition
a return
a trick
a scolding
To mediate is to
watch and analyze a film.
recall the steps in a process.
try to settle differences in a conflict.
take the middle position in a line or row.
Something splendid is very
good.
lucky.
costly.
detailed.
To conjecture is to
discuss.
guess.
understand.
locate.
