Little Women Trivia Questions

Answer: Walt Whitman

Friedrich and Jo recite Walt Whitman, but Jo messes up on one of the words. They recite Whitman after discussing German poetry, since Frederick is an ex-philosophy professor from Germany who loves the arts of all types. Walt Whitman is the same poet that Noah Calhoun reads to get rid of his stutter, in "The Notebook".

Answer: Her hair.

Jo was supposed to get the money from her Great-Aunt March, but couldn't bear to ask her, so instead cuts her hair short and sells it for money!

Answer: Fred Vaughn

She is dating Fred Vaughn, who is also a friend of Laurie's. Eventually, she and Fred break up, and she gets married to Laurie.

Answer: Bhaer

His first name is Friedrich.

Answer: painting

Amy paints - Jo writes.

Answer: Washington Hospital

Marmie mentions that she has received a telegram from Washington Hospital, saying that their father has been wounded. She tells this news to Jo and Meg; they all begin to cry.

Answer: Orchard House

Marmee (Susan Sarandon) calls it the Orchard House after receiving the painting Amy made of it while in France. Hope House is only referred to when Amy is disgusted about her limes in the snow. The other girls at school say that they must have been donated by Hope House. Concord, Massachusetts is where the story takes place, however, the filming actually took place in Canada. This is a detail that can be learned from the extras on the special edition DVD version of the film.

Answer: Scarlett Fever

The saddest part of the movie is when Beth falls ill, almost dies, recovers and then passes away after Jo comes to her side. Hannah informs the girls of the illness that Beth has, and that Amy has to be sent away because unlike Jo and Meg, she did not have it when she was a baby.

Answer: standing in front of the fire

"Oh dear, you always do stand too close to the fire. Well just keep your backside to the wall."

Answer: The role of women in society, and how marrying will give her value

Amy says this to Laurie: "I'm just a woman. And as a woman, there's no way for me to make my own money. Not enough to earn a living, or to support my family. And if I had my own money, which I don't, that money would belong to my husband the moment we got married. And if we had children, they would be his, not mine. They would be his property. So don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me." The speech was not going to be in the original script but Meryl Streep, who played Aunt March, came up with the idea before the scene was filmed, as she thought the film needed a moment where the audience could understand just how little power women had in those days.

Answer: Amy March

Amy is taking potatoes out of the oven when one falls out onto the floor. Before picking it up off of the floor her response is "blast this stove".

Answer: the ink on her fingers

After the mud accident, Jo dries out the pages from her latest manuscript. Friedrich picks up Jo's hand and shows her the ink on her fingers. She takes the hint. In this era, people wrote using a bottle of ink and a pen of sorts that was refilled with ink every so often. To avoid smudging the wet ink, writers used a smudging pad (thicker paper or cardboard) that would take away excess ink from the paper.

Answer: Transcendentalism

This is in the beginning of their relationship, when she is drying her clothes and papers in his room. It reflects the philosophy behind how the March sisters were raised and how they carried out their day-to-day lives.

Answer: Professor Bhaer

She marries Professor Friedrich Bhaer, the German professor she meets in New York. He is twenty years older than Jo.

Answer: emerald

Amy begs Jo and Meg to tell her all the details, including of the ring: "Annie Gardiner says it's an emerald."

Answer: Aunt Josephine

Aunt Josephine March is a far more prominent character in the film than she is in the book (possibly because Meryl Streep wanted a large part) and is ultimately the one who takes Amy to Europe. She also gives Amy advice about marrying well, as Beth is ill, Jo is a 'lost cause' and Meg is married to John Brooke, a poor tutor, and Amy's parents will need financial support in their old age.

Answer: Tutor

Back in Germany Frederick had been a professor of philosophy, but in the United States he is a mere tutor. He says this himself in the scene where Jo's manuscript is drying in front of the fire. When talking about it, he is bringing Jo her coffee.

Answer: German

Anna, the woman who lives in the March house, mentions that the Hummel family is German. After visiting and helping out the family, Beth is stricken with scarlet fever, which weakens her heart permanently. This is what later on leads to her unfortunate demise.

Answer: The Sinners' Corpse.

Jo is desperate to get one of her stories published and so uses a man's name as a pseudonym. When she shows the story in the newspapers to Friedrich, he criticises it and upsets Jo.

Answer: Beth

She never really got over scarlet fever.

Answer: on the Potomac

Amy mispronounces it, as she often does.

Answer: Give her a husband

Mr Dashwood's daughters have been reading the book and enjoyed it so far, but he asks Jo what she intends to do with her heroine, and whether she is going to marry Laurie or the German professor. Jo says that it would be inconsistent if the heroine got married, as she has previously said that she didn't want to marry, but Mr Dashwood argues that the book won't sell unless the heroine marries. This is also a possible nod to Alcott's original plan not to marry Jo off, but her publishers insisted that all the March sisters had to end the book either married (Amy, Jo and Meg) or dead (Beth). Instead of marrying Jo to Laurie as many fans had hoped, she paired Jo with Bhaer and Laurie with Amy. Jo's line about paddling her own canoe is also an actual quote from Alcott.

Answer: Awful

When in the attic dressed as men, the girls look out the window and discuss Laurie. Jo uses the word "awful" and Meg tells her that she must not use that word because it is slang.