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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who marries the couple?
2. Who does Jo meet, while trying to avoid the crowds at the party?
3. The girls create a secret society with what characters based on what?
4. As summer arrives, Marmee gives Amy and Beth what?
5. Laurie does what during one of the girl's club meetings?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Meg's attitude, in chapter eighteen, when she finds out that Laurie sent a letter to her as a prank.
2. How does Jo's attitude in chapter twenty-six effect each of her visits?
3. Describe the differences between each of the March girls.
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 Jo's attitude in chapter three and how it defies conventional thinking in that era.
6. Describe how the men at the picnic in chapter eleven, Fred Vaughn, Laurie, and Mr. Brooke, reveal their true feelings and their character to the girls.
7. How does Amy's family react to her party plan in chapter twenty-three, both before and after the party?
8. How is the Christmas celebration in chapter nineteen different from Christmas a year before?
9. 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.
10. Describe how Amy's planned party for her art school friends goes in chapter twenty-three.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do you feel that Amy should have married Fred Vaughn, not Laurie? Defend your choice using what you know about all three characters.
Essay Topic 2
Christmas and other parties play a recurring role in the March girls' lives throughout the book. Compare and contrast some of the Christmases and other parties in the book and explain how the girls learned the lesson that material things are not as important as family and friends during those festivities.
Essay Topic 3
Compare Jo's thoughts of and interactions with Laurie to her thoughts of and interactions with Professor Bhaer throughout the book. How do her attitudes toward each, as the book progresses, illustrate her aging and maturing?
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