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