***Remember to review your NOTES on the Anne Frank Webquest for tomorrow’s test***.
The Diary of Anne Frank: Study Guide (Act I)
1. When and where does the play begin?
2. Why does Mr. Frank want to leave Amsterdam?
3. List the rules of the “Secret Annex.”
4. How is Mrs. Van Dann embarrassing to her son?
5. What is Anne’s reaction to the Van Dann’s arguing?
6. Why does Mrs. Frank encourage Anne to “be more like Margot?”
7. What bad news does Mr. Dussel bring?
8. List the gifts that Anne got for each of the following characters and the significance of the gift:
a. Margot
b. Mrs. Van Dann
c. Mr. Van Dann
d. Mrs. Frank
e. Mr. Frank
f. Peter
g. Dussel
9. What ends the Hannukah celebration?
10. What does Mr. Frank do to restore calm?
The Diary of Anne Frank: Study Guide (Act II)
1. How much time has passed between Act I and Act II and how long has everybody been hiding in
the secret annex at the beginning of Act II?
2. What favor does Mr. Van Daan need Miep to do for him and what does it say about him as a
person?
3. What bad news did they receive at the end of scene 1?
4. What concern does Mr. Kraler share and what action do they decide to take?
5. What reason does Peter give for spending so much time in his room and how does it lead to a
change in the relationship between Anne and Peter?
6. What does Anne’s reaction to her mother’s request that she leave Peter’s room at 9:00 reveal
about her?
7. What are some of the things Anne and Peter talk about?
8. Why does Anne not want Peter to see some of what she’s written about him in her diary?
9. How does Peter say Anne has changed?
10. What gets the blame for the missing food? What is really to blame?
11. How does Mrs. Frank react to Mr. Vann Daan’s theft? Explain the significance of her reaction?
12. What news does Miep bring in scene 3 and what impact does the news have on everyone?
13. Why are spirits low at the end of scene 3?
14. Why does the sound of the telephone ringing make everyone rigid and tense?
15. What is Dussel’s theory about why the phone continues to ring?
16. What is the difference between Anne’s reaction to the tension in scene 4 and Peter’s reaction?
17. When Anne says “I think myself out” what does she mean and what does that reveal about her?
18. What does Anne wish for Peter?
19. Anne makes an analogy between what is happening in the world and…what?
20. What is the meaning of Mr. Frank’s final statement in scene 4?
21. Who arrives at the end of scene 4 and what does it mean for the residents of the secret annex?
22. What is the setting for scene 5? (Time/Date and Location)
23. What do Miep and Mr. Kraler reveal to Mr. Frank at the end?
24. What happens to each of the annex characters at the end of the play?
a. Mr. Frank
b. Mrs. Frank
c. Mr. and Mrs. Vann Daan
d. Peter
e. Mr. Dussel
f.
Margot
g. Anne
25. What is it that puts Mr. Frank to shame and why?