The Diary of a Young Girl - Quiz
The Diary of a Young Girl
  • 1. What is the book commonly referred to as?
A) The Diary of Anne Frank
B) The Annex
C) Opekta
D) Het Achterhuis
  • 2. In which language was the diary originally written?
A) Dutch
B) French
C) English
D) German
  • 3. How long was Anne Frank in hiding with her family?
A) Four years
B) Two years
C) Three years
D) One year
  • 4. During which occupation was Anne Frank in hiding?
A) Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
B) French occupation
C) Soviet occupation
D) Allied occupation
  • 5. What caused Anne Frank's death?
A) Pneumonia
B) Typhus
C) Starvation
D) Dysentery
  • 6. In which concentration camp did Anne Frank die?
A) Auschwitz
B) Bergen-Belsen
C) Dachau
D) Buchenwald
  • 7. In what year did Anne Frank die?
A) 1943
B) 1944
C) 1945
D) 1946
  • 8. Who retrieved Anne's diaries after the family was apprehended?
A) Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl
B) Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
C) Hermann van Pels and Auguste
D) Otto Frank and Fritz Pfeffer
  • 9. To whom did Miep Gies give the retrieved diaries?
A) Margot Frank
B) Edith Frank
C) Peter van Pels
D) Otto Frank
  • 10. In how many languages has the diary been published?
A) More than 70 languages
B) More than 50 languages
C) More than 100 languages
D) More than 20 languages
  • 11. What was the original Dutch title of the diary?
A) Het Achterhuis
B) Bergen-Belsen
C) Dagboekbrieven
D) Opekta
  • 12. Which publishing company first published the diary in Amsterdam?
A) Vallentine Mitchell
B) Opekta
C) Doubleday & Company
D) Contact Publishing
  • 13. In what year was the diary first published?
A) 1945
B) 1955
C) 1947
D) 1952
  • 14. Which companies published the first English translation in 1952?
A) Vallentine Mitchell and Contact Publishing
B) Doubleday & Company and Contact Publishing
C) Contact Publishing and Opekta
D) Doubleday & Company and Vallentine Mitchell
  • 15. Who wrote the 1955 play inspired by the book?
A) Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
B) Hermann van Pels and Auguste
C) Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl
D) Otto Frank and Fritz Pfeffer
  • 16. In what year was the movie version of the diary released?
A) 1955
B) 1947
C) 1959
D) 1952
  • 17. When did the copyright of the 1947 Dutch version of the diary expire?
A) 1 January 1945
B) 1 January 2020
C) 1 January 2016
D) 1 January 1995
  • 18. On what date did Anne Frank receive her diary?
A) 6 July 1942
B) 12 June 1942
C) 14 June 1942
D) 5 July 1942
  • 19. How old was Anne Frank when she received her diary?
A) 12
B) 15
C) 14
D) 13
  • 20. What did the diary look like?
A) A blue, striped notebook
B) A red, checkered autograph book
C) A black leather journal
D) A brown paper ledger
  • 21. Where did Anne choose her diary book the day before her birthday?
A) At her father's company building
B) In the annex hiding place
C) A bookstore near her home
D) At a work camp in Germany
  • 22. When did Anne start writing the main diary?
A) 12 June 1942
B) 14 June 1942
C) 6 July 1942
D) 5 July 1942
  • 23. Who received an official summons to report to a Nazi work camp in Germany on 5 July 1942?
A) Edith
B) Anne
C) Otto
D) Margot
  • 24. How old was Margot when she received the summons?
A) 16
B) 18
C) 15
D) 13
  • 25. On what date did Margot and Anne go into hiding?
A) 12 June 1942
B) 5 July 1942
C) 14 June 1942
D) 6 July 1942
  • 26. Who was Hermann van Pels?
A) A publisher
B) Otto's dentist
C) An Allied soldier
D) Otto's business partner
  • 27. Who joined the family in hiding along with Hermann van Pels?
A) Only his son Peter
B) His parents
C) His brother and sister
D) His wife Auguste and teenage son Peter
  • 28. Where was the hiding place located?
A) Upper rooms of the annex at the back of Otto's company building in Amsterdam
B) In the basement of a bookstore near her home
C) In a countryside farmhouse
D) In a Nazi work camp in Germany
  • 29. In what year did Otto Frank start his business named Opekta?
A) 1945
B) 1933
C) 1939
D) 1942
  • 30. What product was Otto Frank licensed to manufacture and sell through Opekta?
A) Pectin, used to make jam
B) Paper and notebooks
C) Dental supplies
D) Clothing and shoes
  • 31. What concealed the rooms where everyone hid?
A) A sliding door
B) A brick wall
C) A large curtain
D) A movable bookcase
  • 32. Who was Fritz Pfeffer?
A) The dentist of Miep Gies
B) An Allied commander
C) A Dutch publisher
D) Otto Frank's business partner
  • 33. How many months after the others did Fritz Pfeffer join them in hiding?
A) Six months
B) One year
C) Two months
D) Four months
  • 34. What name was given to the van Pelses in the published version of the diary?
A) The Düssels
B) The Voskuijls
C) The Van Daans
D) The Gieses
  • 35. What name was given to Fritz Pfeffer in the published version of the diary?
A) Otto Opekta
B) Peter Van Daan
C) Albert Düssel
D) Hermann van Pels
  • 36. How long did the group remain hidden in total?
A) One year and two months
B) Two years and six months
C) Three years
D) Two years and one month
  • 37. When did the Allied forces commence the Normandy landings?
A) 15 April 1945
B) 1 January 2016
C) 4 August 1944
D) 6 June 1944
  • 38. On what date was the group discovered and deported?
A) 15 April 1945
B) 4 August 1944
C) 6 June 1944
D) 6 July 1942
  • 39. How many weeks before the Allies breached the Belgian-Dutch border was the group discovered?
A) Eight weeks
B) Six weeks
C) Two weeks
D) Four weeks
  • 40. What was the police raid that possibly led to the group's discovery actually targeting?
A) Stealing jam from Opekta
B) Smuggling weapons
C) Printing fake newspapers
D) Ration fraud
  • 41. How many people were in hiding together in total?
A) Eight people
B) Four people
C) Six people
D) Ten people
  • 42. How old was Anne when she died?
A) 14
B) 13
C) 16
D) 15
  • 43. When was the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated by British troops?
A) 6 June 1944
B) 15 April 1945
C) 4 August 1944
D) 1 January 2016
  • 44. What group assisted the hiders during their time in the annex?
A) Foreign journalists
B) A team of British soldiers
C) A group of Otto Frank's trusted colleagues
D) Local Nazi officials
  • 45. When does the second surviving volume begin?
A) 22 December 1943
B) 12 June 1943
C) 5 December 1942
D) 17 April 1944
  • 46. How many days before Anne Frank's arrest did the third volume's entries end?
A) Three days
B) One day
C) Two weeks
D) A full week
  • 47. Which Nazi intelligence agency's special department emptied the rooms after the arrest?
A) Abwehr
B) Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo)
C) Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
D) Schutzstaffel (SS)
  • 48. What galvanized Anne's literary ambitions on 29 March 1944?
A) An announcement in a local newspaper
B) A letter from her publisher
C) A London radio broadcast by Gerrit Bolkestein
D) Reading a new book by Cissy van Marxveldt
  • 49. With whom in mind did Anne start re-drafting her diary?
A) Her grandchildren
B) Future readers or archivists
C) Nazi intelligence officers
D) Schoolteachers in Amsterdam
  • 50. What did Anne exclude when redrafting her diary?
A) Any references to the weather
B) All mentions of her family members
C) Material she considered inconsequential, insignificant or too intimate
D) Dates and times of the entries
  • 51. When did Otto Frank pass away?
A) 1995
B) 1972
C) 1980
D) 1947
  • 52. When did speculation about a real-world counterpart for 'Kitty' begin?
A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1980s
D) 1970s
  • 53. Who was mistakenly linked as the real-world 'Kitty' in the 1970 book?
A) Kitty Egyedi
B) Henri van Praag
C) Cissy van Marxveldt
D) Kitty Francken
  • 54. What was Kitty Egyedi's relationship to Anne Frank before the war?
A) A neighbor in the Secret Annex
B) A fellow writer
C) A cousin from Germany
D) A pre-war school friend
  • 55. When were the unabridged diaries first published in Dutch?
A) 1986
B) 1989
C) 1970
D) 1947
  • 56. When were the unabridged diaries first published in English?
A) 1992
B) 1986
C) 1989
D) 1970
  • 57. How many names among the initial recipients correspond to a group of friends in Cissy van Marxveldt's novels?
A) Eight
B) Three
C) None
D) Five
  • 58. What genre are the novels written by Cissy van Marxveldt that Anne read?
A) Biographical
B) Epistolary
C) Historical non-fiction
D) Poetry
  • 59. What is the name of the teenage girl featured in Cissy van Marxveldt's novels who shares the name used by Anne?
A) Kitty van Praag
B) Kitty Egyedi
C) Kitty Francken
D) Kitty Frank
  • 60. What did Anne intend to use the diary as, according to her 20 June 1942 entry?
A) A school assignment
B) A surrogate friend
C) A historical record
D) A published novel
  • 61. Did Anne fall in love with Helmut Silberberg?
A) Only temporarily
B) No
C) Yes
D) The text does not mention
  • 62. What compulsory item did Anne often mention in her diary?
A) A blue identification card
B) A green passport
C) A red armband
D) The yellow star
  • 63. What dark rumors were hinted at in the diary regarding the Jews?
A) Being given free land
B) Being converted to another religion
C) Being sent to work in America
D) Being gassed
  • 64. How is Anne's writing about the Holocaust characterized?
A) Propaganda written by the Nazis
B) An exaggerated fictional account
C) A complete and omniscient historical record
D) A partial, rumour-based understanding
  • 65. Did the people hiding in the Annex know they faced mortal danger?
A) No
B) Only after they left the Annex
C) Yes
D) They thought they were completely safe
  • 66. Who shared a room with Anne in the Annex?
A) Her father
B) Auguste van Pels
C) Peter van Pels
D) Fritz Pfeffer
  • 67. How did Anne describe herself regarding her talking habits?
A) Someone who only spoke when spoken to
B) A very quiet and silent person
C) A mute individual
D) A self-admitted chatterbox
  • 68. What language was the very first transcription of Anne's diary made in?
A) Dutch
B) French
C) German
D) English
  • 69. By which year was a sixth edition of the Dutch book published?
A) 1950
B) 1947
C) 1986
D) 1946
  • 70. How many total pages were in the 1986 critical edition?
A) 714
B) 100
C) 500
D) 3,000
  • 71. Who made the first English translation of the diary in 1950?
A) Barbara Mooyaart-Doubleday
B) Rosey E. Pool
C) Susan Massotty
D) Judith Jones
  • 72. Who wrote the introduction to the English publication of the book?
A) Rosey E. Pool
B) Judith Jones
C) Eleanor Roosevelt
D) Susan Massotty
  • 73. In what year did the book appear in the United States and the United Kingdom?
A) 1995
B) 1952
C) 1989
D) 1950
  • 74. Who provided a new translation based on the original texts published in 1995?
A) Barbara Mooyaart-Doubleday
B) Susan Massotty
C) Judith Jones
D) Rosey E. Pool
  • 75. Who adapted The Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic novel in 2018?
A) Susan Massotty
B) Ari Folman
C) David Polonsky
D) Otto Frank
  • 76. Who illustrated the 2018 graphic novel adaptation of the diary?
A) David Polonsky
B) Ari Folman
C) Judith Jones
D) Rosey E. Pool
  • 77. What was included in the 1986 Critical Edition alongside comparison of all known versions?
A) Illustrations by David Polonsky
B) An introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Discussion asserting the diary's authentication
D) An exclusive interview with Otto Frank
  • 78. What edition published in 1995 included Anne's description of exploring her own genitalia?
A) An edition containing previously edited-out descriptions
B) The first English translation
C) The graphic novel adaptation
D) The Critical Edition
  • 79. Who announced in 1999 that he possessed five missing pages from the diary?
A) Cornelis Suijk
B) Frank van Vree
C) Otto Frank
D) Anne Frank
  • 80. What was Cornelis Suijk's former role regarding the Anne Frank Foundation?
A) Director
B) Owner
C) Editor
D) President
  • 81. What organization did Cornelis Suijk serve as president of?
A) Dutch Ministry of Education
B) Anne Frank Foundation
C) Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
D) U.S. Center for Holocaust Education Foundation
  • 82. When did Cornelis Suijk announce he had the five missing diary pages?
A) 2000
B) 2018
C) 1999
D) 1980
  • 83. What do the missing diary entries contain regarding Anne's parents?
A) Details about their wedding day
B) Instructions on running a household
C) Praise for their happy relationship
D) Critical remarks about their strained marriage
  • 84. What did the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation demand?
A) That the pages be burned
B) That Suijk be arrested
C) That the book be taken out of print
D) That the pages be handed over
  • 85. In what year did the Dutch Ministry of Education agree to a financial settlement for the pages?
A) 2000
B) 2001
C) 1999
D) 2018
  • 86. How much money did the Dutch Ministry of Education donate to Suijk's foundation?
A) US$1,000,000
B) US$300,000
C) US$500,000
D) US$199,000
  • 87. In what year were the missing pages finally returned?
A) 2018
B) 2001
C) 1980
D) 1999
  • 88. When were unseen excerpts from the diary discovered?
A) 2001
B) 1980
C) May 2018
D) 1999
  • 89. How did Frank van Vree describe the 'dirty' jokes found in the diary?
A) Historical artifacts of war
B) Classics among growing children
C) Offensive and inappropriate
D) Complex literary devices
  • 90. Who wrote the first dramatization of the diary, which did not find a producer?
A) Meyer Levin
B) Frances Goodrich
C) Albert Hackett
D) Otto Frank
  • 91. Which award did the play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich win for 1955?
A) Academy Award
B) Nobel Prize
C) Tony Award
D) Pulitzer Prize
  • 92. Which actress earned an Academy Award for her performance in a film version of the diary?
A) Anne Frank
B) Alix Sobler
C) Shelley Winters
D) Wendy Kesselman
  • 93. Who created an adaptation of the diary in 1997?
A) Fred Breinersdorfer
B) Ari Folman
C) Wendy Kesselman
D) Alix Sobler
  • 94. Who wrote the first German film version of the diary released in 2016?
A) Andrew Fox
B) Joel Sinensky
C) Fred Breinersdorfer
D) Ari Folman
  • 95. Which company released the 2016 German film version of the diary?
A) UNESCO
B) The Anne Frank Foundation
C) Theater Amsterdam
D) NBCUniversal
  • 96. Whose illustrations inspired the animation style of Where Is Anne Frank?
A) Polonsky's
B) Meyer Levin's
C) Wendy Kesselman's
D) Alix Sobler's
  • 97. What genre is Slam Frank?
A) A biographical documentary
B) An animated magical realism film
C) A critical drama
D) A satirical hip-hop musical
  • 98. How does Slam Frank imagine Anne Frank?
A) As a survivor of the Holocaust
B) As a Dutch refugee
C) As Latinx
D) As an imaginary friend
  • 99. How did Otto Frank describe reading the diary for the first time in the 1960s?
A) As a revelation
B) As a painful ordeal
C) As a disappointing experience
D) As an ordinary memory
  • 100. Who wrote that the diary 'traces her emotional growth amid adversity'?
A) Otto Frank
B) Ari Folman
C) Michael Berenbaum
D) Meyer Levin
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