Little Women - Little Women-Good Wives Quiz

Answer: 4-5 years

In her descriptions of the sisters at the beginning of the first chapter, the author informs us that Meg is 16, Jo is 15, Beth is 13, and Amy is 'the youngest' - later in the chapter, when the girls and Marmee are discussing playing Pilgrims Progress, we learn that Amy is 12.

Answer: Ice cream, cake and French bonbons

From 'A Merry Christmas': 'It was like Marmee to get up a little treat for them, but anything so fine as this was unheard of since the departed days of plenty. There was ice cream, actually two dishes of it - pink and white - and cake, and fruit, and distracting French bonbons, and in the middle of the table four great bouquests of hot-house flowers!'

Answer: a turquoise ring

While they are looking through Aunt March's many treasures, Aunt's maid Esther privately tells Amy that '... I have a fancy that the little turquiose ring will be given to you when you go, for Madame approves your good behavior and charming manners...' which causes Amy to be a 'model of obedience' afterward.

In her will she promises is to 'my dear sister Margaret', with the comment 'if I get it'. Note: Amy spells it 'turkquoise' in her will.

Answer: Pip the canary

Being leisurely, Beth forgot to feed the poor thing and he starved to death.

Answer: gives Meg fake love letters from John Brooke

Laurie sent Meg a false love letter from Mr. Brooke, which she replied (rather sensibly) to through Laurie. Laurie then sent her another letter, supposedly from John, denying knowledge of the first and blaming Jo for the deception. Meg raged at Jo before Marmee, and after some discussion Jo guessed that both letters were from Laurie and brought the boy over for Marmee to lecture.

Answer: Franz and Emil

Jo mentions their names several times in letters home from New York.

Answer: Margaret and John Laurence

The girl is called Daisy, so as not to have 2 Megs in the family, and Laurie pronounces the boy 'DemiJohn', a little version of his father.

Answer: Miss Randal

Just before Laurie proposes to her, Jo teases him about 'how many bouquets have you sent Miss Randal this week?' and in Europe, though it is indicated that she knows the truth, Amy suggests that it was Miss Randal who broke Laurie's heart rather than Jo.

Answer: Lotty

In the Chapter 'Little Faithful' where Beth contracts Scarlet Fever, Beth says 'Lottchen said her mother had gone for a doctor, so I took the baby and let Lotty rest...' Lotty is mentioned as one of the minor characters who regularly interacts with the March girls.

Answer: a snow maiden

A Jungfrau is German for 'young maiden' (or virgin), while also the name of a mountain in Switzerland, thus leaving the author's meaning behind this title a bit shady. The song is to the tune of 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen'.

Answer: she doesn't use a pseudonym

Mrs. Northbury is the nom de plume of a writer whose work Jo emulates; Mr. Dashwood is the publisher of the 'Weekly Volcano'.

Answer: Frank

When the Vaughns join Laurie, John Brooke and the March girls for a day of picnicing and romping (at 'Camp Laurence'), it is noted that Frank is on crutches (which is why shy Beth is less afraid of him). Later on, Amy notes in a letter from Europe that Frank no longer uses crutches, but still has a distinctive limp. Fred Vaughn was Frank's twin, who proposed to Amy in Europe (she turned him down).

Answer: getting Demi to go to bed

A good portion of 'On the Shelf' is dedicated to Meg's inability to get Demi to mind her, and the effect it has on their marriage.

Answer: go to Switzerland

In 'Learning to Forget' Laurie tries to write first a requiem, then an opera about Jo (the latter becomes an opera about a heroine whose description matches Amy more than Jo), and writes Jo a letter to try to convince her once more that she should love and marry him (it fails). It is Amy who is in Switzerland during this time.

Answer: plaster castings

Amy attempted to make a casting of her own foot, but the plaster hardened too quickly, and Jo (in a fit of laughter) cut Amy's foot while getting it out of the plaster brick. We are told this left a 'lasting memorial' of the attempt.

Answer: In Vevey, in a boat in the middle of a lake

The two are rowing, each managing one oar when Amy comments on how well they row together and Laurie says 'So well, that I wish we might always pull in the same boat. Will you?' She says yes, of course!

Answer: His granddaughter, a very talented pianist, died as a child

It is in fact the granddaughter's very own piano that Mr. Laurence gives to Beth, in gratitude for the delicate hand-made slippers she gives him for letting her play the grand piano in the mansion's study.

Answer: a chestnut burr

Jo is described by Meg as 'a chestnut burr, prickly outside but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it.' Meg suggests love will open Jo's heart and 'the rough burr will fall off', to which Jo jokes that 'Frost opens chestnut burrs... and it takes a good shake to bring them down. Boys go nutting, and I don't care to be bagged by them.'

Answer: Dovecote

Answer: 19

During their visit to the seashore where Jo realizes Beth is dying, Jo declares that '19 is too young'. Beth MAY have been 20, though there is no indication that she celebrates a birthday between the seaside trip and her death.

Answer: five

Meg's Daisy and Demi, Jo's Rob and Teddy, and Amy's daughter Beth all appear briefly in the last chapter.

Answer: silk to make a dress

On a shopping trip with her friend Sallie (Mrs. Ned Moffat), Meg succumbs to temptation and spends {$50} on yards of silver silk, but regrets it almost instantly. When accounting to John her frivolous spending, she complains that she is tired of being poor. She later apologizes for the insult and convinces Sallie to buy the silk from her.

Answer: Jo's comments and behavior during a call she and Amy pay on Aunt March

In the chapter 'Calls', Amy drags Jo along while returning social visits to various friends and neighbors, culminating with Aunt March, where they find Aunt Carroll also visiting. Amy is gentiel and refined, and caters to the old ladies, while Jo is brash and headstrong as usual.

In her letter inviting Amy to accompany her ('Consequences'), Carroll repeats several of Jo's comments, including how she 'hates French' and 'favors burden her' - thus sealing her doom and Amy's good fortune.

Answer: New Year's Eve

They meet while both of them are hiding from the rest of the people at Mrs. Gardiner's New Year's Eve Party.

Answer: shopping

Jo goes out shopping on the pretext of buying paper, when she really wants to go look for Bhaer, who has not visited the house in several days. When she does run into him, he joins her in getting some things Marmee wanted, then asks her to help him shop for some friends for when he goes back to New York.

He catches her shedding a tear, and when he asks her why she is crying, she admits it's because he's planning to leave. This admission gives the professor the courage to ask her to marry him.