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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. How does the March family react to Professor Bhaer?

2. As it is time for Laurie to graduate, what happens?

3. Laurie and Amy decide what about each other?

4. When Laurie writes to Jo to ask her to return his love, she does what?

5. Laurie seems to have lost his sense of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jo react to the news that Laurie and Amy are engaged.

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

4. How does Marmee feel about Jo, Beth, and Jo's plan to go to New York so Laurie and Beth can be together?

5. How do Jo's rude actions in chapter twenty-six hurt Amy in chapter twenty-seven?

6. What secret does Beth reveal to Jo at the seashore and what does it say about Beth's mental state?

7. How does Jo feel about romantic pursuits, and how do her actions compare or contrast to that?

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

9. How do Laurie and Amy react to the news of Beth's death, and how do their reactions alter the main story?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marmee, the mother, is a major figure the girls look up to throughout the book. Later on, the three surviving girls all become mothers themselves. Based on your opinions of the way each girl acted in the book, choose one of the following and describe why you think she made the best mother.

1. Jo

2. Amy

3. Meg

Essay Topic 2

In part I of the book, the girls have to make sacrifices due to the War. Explain the family hardships that go on, both financial and personal, and how the girls overcome them.

Essay Topic 3

Meg's attitude early on in the book is, perhaps, the best representation of the attitude of typical girls of the time. Do you agree with how much value she placed on what was proper and what other people might think of her? Why or why not?

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