SparkNotes: Little Women: Quiz

1. What does Jo want to buy herself for Christmas?

(A) A horse

(B) A book

(C) Drawing pencils

(D) A new dress

2. Who presides over the Pickwick Club?

(A) Jo

(B) Marmee

(C) Laurie

(D) Meg

3. What does Beth bring over to Laurie when he is not feeling well?

(A) Flowers

(B) Mittens

(C) Kittens

(D) Slippers

4. What does Amy consider her greatest weakness?

(A) Her poverty

(B) Her nose

(C) Her dresses

(D) Her bad singing voice

5. What does Mr. Laurence give to Beth?

(A) Slippers

(B) His granddaughter’s piano

(C) Voice lessons

(D) Books

6. Who proposes to Amy?

(A) Frank and Fred Vaughn

(B) Mr. Brooke and Laurie

(C) Fred Vaughn and Laurie

(D) Ned Moffat and Professor Bhaer

7. What is Jo’s job in New York?

(A) Teaching and sewing

(B) Writing for a small newspaper

(C) Cooking and cleaning

(D) Bartending

8. What does Jo do with the prize money she wins for her first published story?

(A) She spends it in New York

(B) She sends Marmee and Beth to the beach

(C) She gives it to charity

(D) She gives it to Aunt March as repayment

9. How does Jo obtain the twenty-five dollars she gives to Marmee before Marmee goes to Washington, D.C.?

(A) She sells her hair

(B) She writes a story

(C) She baby-sits

(D) She sells baked goods

10. What do the Marches traditionally do before bedtime?

(A) Have a group hug

(B) Run a lap around the house

(C) Read a story aloud together

(D) Sing

11. What is Mr. Brooke’s occupation?

(A) He is a college professor

(B) He writes domestic novels

(C) He is Laurie’s tutor

(D) He does not have a job

12. Where is Jo and Mr. Bhaer’s school located?

(A) Plumfield

(B) In the West

(C) In the Marches’ house

(D) In Meg’s house

13. How many people come to the party that Amy planned for her art class?

(A) One

(B) Two

(C) Three

(D) Four

14. When Beth seems moody, what does Jo think is causing the moodiness?

(A) That Beth thinks she is going to die

(B) That Beth is in love with Laurie

(C) That Beth’s canary has died

(D) That Beth feels sorry for poor people

15. What does Amy do for which Jo swears she will never forgive her?

(A) She slaps Jo

(B) She trades limes at school

(C) She burns Jo’s manuscript

(D) She burns Jo’s hair

16. Who does Sallie Gardiner marry?

(A) Ned Moffat

(B) Laurie

(C) Fred Vaughn

(D) Frank Vaughn

17. What does Meg do for money before she is married?

(A) She works for Aunt March

(B) She works as a governess

(C) She sells her hair

(D) She sells limes

18. Why does Marmee take Amy out of school?

(A) She does not believe that children should be physically punished

(B) She thinks that the teacher should have left Amy’s limes alone

(C) She thinks that the teacher provides bad mathematical instruction

(D) She thinks that Beth needs to teach someone

19. What is Jo’s “one beauty,” according to the novel?

(A) Her small feet

(B) Her aristocratic nose

(C) Her petite frame

(D) Her hair

20. What does Professor Bhaer always have in his pockets?

(A) His eyeglasses

(B) Flowers

(C) Chocolate drops

(D) A book

21. What type of music does Laurie try to write in Austria?

(A) A waltz and a hymn

(B) A requiem and an opera

(C) A concerto and a fugue

(D) A dance and a jig

22. From where is Professor Bhaer originally?

(A) Switzerland

(B) Austria

(C) Germany

(D) Italy

23. Who are the witnesses to Amy’s will?

(A) Marmee and Mr. March

(B) Jo and Meg

(C) Laurie and Esther

(D) Aunt March and Aunt Carrol

24. With whom does Amy go to Europe?

(A) Florence and Aunt Carrol

(B) Laurie

(C) Jo

(D) Aunt March

25. Where in the March house does Jo do her writing?

(A) In Beth’s room

(B) In the garden

(C) In the garret

(D) In her closet