2. How is Amy punished at school?
(a) She gets detained after school.
(b) She has to write lines.
(c) Her hands are slapped.
(d) She is expelled.

3. Amy wants to have a gathering of her friends, which she calls what?
(a) artists gathering
(b) artists picnic
(c) art appreciation meeting
(d) artistic fete

4. When Mr. and Mrs. March find out that Mr. Brooke wants to court Meg, they say what?
(a) Meg can marry immediately.
(b) Meg can marry when she turns twenty.
(c) Meg cannot Marry Mr. Brooke at all.
(d) Meg can Marry Mr. Brooke in a year.

5. Who is sent to Aunt March's house?
(a) Meg
(b) Jo
(c) Beth
(d) Amy

Short Answer Questions

1. Jo does what to raise money for a trip?

2. What does each girl find under her pillow one Christmas morning?

3. Mr. Brooke comes to the house to retrieve what?

4. What happens during Mr. and Mrs. Brooke's dinner?

5. A rumor is circulating that Mrs. March wants to arrange a match between Laurie and who?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Christmas celebration in chapter nineteen different from Christmas a year before?

2. Describe how poverty plays a role in chapter two.

3. Describe how Amy's planned party for her art school friends goes in chapter twenty-three.

4. How does Marmee's attitude about Meg and Mr. Brooke and her children growing up in general illustrate Alcott's progressive views on the position of women in the late 1800s?

5. Describe how Meg's personality changes in chapter twenty-two, as she is married.

6. Explain how Marmee's hope, in chapter nine, that her children will be happy, whether married or single, reflects the changing times when Alcott was writing the book in the 1860s.

7. How is the idea that leisure doesn't pay neatly illustrated by Marmee for all of the girls in chapter eleven?

8. How, in chapter six, do the girls' attitudes toward their neighbors grow and adapt?

9. Describe what illnesses do to the family in chapter sixteen.

10. What are the girls' feelings toward the role of women in society, and how do they show these feelings in chapter ten?

(see the answer keys)

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