Part A
In the diary entry from Saturday, June 20, 1942, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne writes that "paper is more patient
than man."
Which sentence best analyzes the meaning of her statement?
Anne believes she cannot confide her thoughts to anyone or anything.
Anne wants to confide her thoughts to a person rather than a diary.
Anne knows the pages of her diary will wait for her, like a person.
Anne believes that her journal is less judgmental than a human confidant.
Part B.
Which excerpt best supports the answer in Part A?
“But it's the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more."
“I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary."
"It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary, not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems
to me that neither Inor anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl."
"I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart."
