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Scarlett O'Hara, Belle of the Ball

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Mitchell, Margaret : Scarlett O'Hara, Belle of the Ball

Introduction:
"Gone With the Wind is arguably the greatest American novel ever written. Try your hand at this quiz, and see how much you know about Scarlett O'Hara, belle of the ball."


1. The novel opens with this line.." Scarlett O'Hara was not -----, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm ..." Fill in the missing word.
    Answer: (this has to do with her appearance)


2. Scarlett is a combination of her parent's very different backgrounds, and this mixture causes her to be at war with her own nature throughout much of the novel. What are her parent's origins?
    Spanish and Irish
    French and Irish
    French and English
    French and Scottish


3. What is Scarlett's mother's maiden name?
    Answer: (begins with an R)


4. At the barbecue at the Wilkes's plantation Twelve Oaks, Scarlett comes up with a plan to attract every young man's attention to try and make Ashley jealous. Why does she decide not to sit at a table?
    Ashley and Melanie were sitting apart from the table and she needed to be near them
    Frank Kennedy was at the table and she didn't want to be near that "old maid in britches"
    her parents were at the table and she didn't want them to see her flirting
    only two men could sit beside her at a table


5. Who is the only girl who Scarlett considers to be a possible friend at the beginning of the novel?
    Cathleen Calvert
    Honey Wilkes
    Melanie Hamilton
    Maybelle Merriwether


6. Why is Rhett Butler 'not received'?
    he made a deal with the Yankees
    he shot a man in the back
    he compromised a girl and refused to marry her
    he swindled families in Charleston


7. When Charles Hamilton proposes to Scarlett, what is she thinking to herself that he looks like?
    a nincompoop
    a gigged frog
    a ragamuffin
    a carpetbagger


8. What happens on Scarlett and Charles wedding night?
    She tells him she'll scream if he comes near her
    she tells him she only married him to make Ashley jealous
    she sets fire to the barn so she won't have to go to bed with her new husband
    she forces herself to endure


9. After Scarlett unsucessfully stays in Savannah with family, Her mother sends her to Atlanta for a visit to stay with Melanie and who else?
    Answer: (a relative of Melanie and Scarlett)


10. There is one male slave in the home that Scarlett and Melanie live in in Atlanta. What is his name?
    Answer: (two words)


11. When Scarlett is at the fund raising ball in Atlanta, forced to wear her "widow's weeds", she is suddenly aware that everyone is swept up in a torrent of emotion she doesn't feel. What is the movement everyone else is embracing?
    Jefferson Davis's run for the presidency
    the war
    the Cause
    raising money for the soldiers


12. Why is Scarlett so horrified when she sees Rhett Butler at the ball in Atlanta?
    he knows why she married Charles Hamilton
    he heard her tell Ashley she was in love with him
    she is afraid he wants to compromise her
    she doesn't want him to ask her to dance


13. Gerald comes to Atlanta to bring Scarlett home 'in disgrace', but she is ironically saved from this fate when Gerald disgraces himself and she blackmails him. What does he do?
    He goes carousing with Uncle Henry Hamilton
    he gets drunk and makes a pass at Aunt Pittypat
    he gets drunk and loses all his money in a poker game
    he and Rhett visit Belle Watling's house of ill repute after an evening of drinking


14. When Gerald awakens in the morning with a terrible hangover, he asks Scarlett if there is anything to drink in the house. Scarlett gets a bottle of brandy, that she and Melanie refer to as the ---- bottle, because Aunt Pittypat always asks for it when she feels faint. What is the missing word?
    Answer: (begins with an s)


15. Scarlett uses the expression Fiddle Dee Dee in the movie and the book, but in the book she also uses an expression she picked up from Gerald. What is it?
    drats
    God's nightgown
    damn
    horsefeathers


16. Scarlett and Frank are awakened one night to find an old friend soaking wet at their door who has to leave town in a hurry for killing someone. Who is it?
    Cade Calvert
    Renee Picard
    Stuart Tarleton
    Tony Fontaine


17. When Scarlett marries Charles Hamilton, Stuart and Brent Tarleton are furious, but they eventually move on and court other girls.When Gerald relays this information to Scarlett during his visit to Atlanta, she is furious. Who are the twins now courting?
    Suellen & Careen O'Hara
    Maybelle Merriwether & Fanny Elsing
    Cathleen Calvert & Honey Wilkes
    India Wilkes & Careen O'Hara


18. When Scarlett confesses to Rhett that it is her fault that Frank is dead, he laughs and tells her she is on the verge of what?
    a nervous breakdown
    a crying jag
    getting a conscience
    losing her head


19. Scarlett has a recurring dream that haunts her for years. What is it about?
    Yankees at Tara
    running lost through the mist
    her mother's death
    her father's death


20. Scarlett's daughter with Frank is named Ella, and her middle name comes from a song she sings to Rhett at the ball in Atlanta several years before. What is Ella's middle name?
    Katie
    Lorena
    Victoria
    Carreen


21. When Scarlett makes the green velvet dress to go to Atlanta to get the money for the taxes, everyone knows she makes them from her mother's curtains. But where does she get the feather for her hat?
    she takes one of the peacock feathers that was used to brush away flies
    from the rooster's tail
    from an old feather pillow
    her mother's hat she finds in the attic


22. Scarlett's mother dies of typhoid that she catches while nursing Emmie Slattery. When Emmie and her husband Jonas Wilkerson show up to buy Tara , what does Scarlett say to her?
    " So you married the Yankee overseer. That's nothing to be so high and mighty about."
    "My mother died because she helped you, you little piece of white trash!
    " Who baptized your other brats after you killed my mother?"
    " Where did you get the money for your fancy clothes?"


23. When Scarlett and Rhett marry, she has one goal in mind when she builds her new house in Atlanta. What is it?
    for it to surpass the fine homes she saw in New Orleans on her honeymoon
    To make everyone envious and sorry for being mean to her
    For it to be bigger than Tara
    to have enough room for her entire family to live there


24. How does Melanie die?
    saving Scarlett's life
    complications from a miscarriage
    saving her son's life
    typhoid


25. What does Scarlett realize when she visits Melanie at her deathbed?
    that Melanie was her one true friend
    that Melanie's son needs her to take care of him
    that she can pursue Ashley
    that the old South is truly gone


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