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