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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anne is constantly enthralled with a certain kind of people. Which people are these?
(a) The Christians
(b) The Jews
(c) The Germans
(d) The Dutch

2. What is Anne's greatest wish in life?
(a) To become a wife
(b) To become a mother
(c) To become a journalist
(d) To become a doctor

3. What has the Court forbidden from digging?
(a) Kraler
(b) Elli
(c) Koophuis
(d) Dussel

4. Why are Dussel and Mr. Van Daan not speaking?
(a) Mr. Van Daan stole from Dussel
(b) Mr. Van Daan is jealous of Dussel talking to Mrs. Van Daan
(c) Dussel says that Mr. Van Daan has been shouting at him
(d) Dussel wants Mr. Van Daan to apologize

5. What is Mr. Frank's advice to Anne?
(a) To marry Peter
(b) To tell the Van Daans
(c) To stop seeing Peter altogether
(d) To hold back and not see Peter as often

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the gentlemen do as they sit around listening to the radio?

2. Who is the most optimistic about the war's progress?

3. What would Mrs. Frank love to eat?

4. Who or what is Bosche?

5. What does Mouschi do that upsets Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Anne disappointed with Peter? Do they still talk?

2. On February 12, 1944, Anne's mood changes and the reader sees some of the most positive writing of the entire diary. To what does Anne compare herself?

3. What is smelling up the room on March 14, 1944? And what does Anne do to mask the scent?

4. What are food cycles, according to Anne?

5. Anne sees herself as a bundle of contradictions and as having a dual personality. How does she describe her two selves?

6. Anne is beginning to develop into a young woman. Give two examples of how the reader can see this in the diary entries.

7. What does Anne think Peter's problem is? And what does she think of this problem?

8. What happened to cause Anne to have an outburst about an "incalculable loss?" What did she do to salvage this loss.

9. What does Peter joke about that disturbs Anne? Why does this bother her?

10. What does Peter admire about Anne, and what prompts him to share this revelation with her?

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