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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jo writes often to her family about whom?
(a) the person she's keeping house for
(b) Laurie
(c) the person she's tutoring
(d) a new friend in the boardinghouse

2. Amy begins to look at Laurie as what?
(a) an eligible young man
(b) an overconfident braggart
(c) a good friend
(d) an older brother figure

3. Amy declines whose marriage proposal?
(a) Harry
(b) Fred
(c) George
(d) Ron

4. Laurie leaves with Mr. Laurence to do what?
(a) visit a relation in Pennsylvania
(b) travel to New York
(c) visit a friend in Washington
(d) travel abroad

5. What occasion does Laurie visit Amy for?
(a) Easter
(b) Christmas
(c) his birthday
(d) her birthday

Short Answer Questions

1. Professor Bhaer begins to do what for Jo?

2. Laurie appeals to Jo one more time before his trip and she does what?

3. Amy puts her insecurities about Laurie's affection to rest after what happens?

4. Beth does what as she is slowly dying?

5. The family prepares for what event?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jo handle the fact that Beth is dying?

2. What does chapter thirty-two say about the changeable nature of life and death?

3. In chapter thirty-nine, as she prepares to settle into the Laurence estate, how has Amy's attitude about money and material things changed?

4. What does the entire book say about wealth?

5. Who arrives, in chapter thirty-eight, besides Laurie, Amy, and Mr. Laurence, and why does that person come?

6. In chapter thirty-eight, Laurie and Jo have a final discussion about their relationship and decide what?

7. How does Mrs. March's sixtieth birthday celebration, in the final chapter, mirror the Christmas festivities in the first chapter of the book?

8. When Beth gets increasingly depressed and upset, how does Jo plan to raise Beth's spirits in chapter twenty-eight?

9. How does Laurie and Amy's Christmas spent together in France affect the major plot line of Jo's relationship with Laurie?

10. How does Alcott show, through Jo's progression in the book, that women can have many roles in life?

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