Louisa May Alcott Trivia

1. What are the characters talking about when they are first introduced?

From Quiz The Inheritance

Answer: Lord Percy getting there

The first sentence that is spoken says: "I hope Lord Percy will be here before my flowers are withered." ~Chapter 1. They are spoken by "the bright-haired girl," who we find out is Amy.

From Quiz "Little Women" by Louisa M. Alcott

Answer: Marmee

Marmee is a main character in "Little Women". She gets the girls get through their various difficult times, and shows them how work is just as important as play.

From Quiz An Old Fashioned Girl

Answer: 14

Fanny told Polly that she didn't dress like a girl of fourteen. Fanny was sixteen at that time.

From Quiz Eight Cousins

Answer: Campbell

Her last name is Campbell, and all of her aunts and uncles and cousins have the same last name, too.

From Quiz The Little Women Series

Answer: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy

The four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, were the basis of the books. Without them, there would be no "Little Women".

From Quiz Jo's Boys

Answer: Medicine

Nan, our doctor, was at Plumfield as a naughty child.

From Quiz Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"

Answer: Meg-16; Jo-15; Beth-13; Amy-12

Meg is the oldest and works as a governess; Jo is a real tomboy and keeps her Aunt March company every day; Beth is very shy and stays at home studying and helping their mother; Amy is the youngest and wants very much to be rich and has a complex about the shape of her nose.

From Quiz Little Women - Little Women-Good Wives

Answer: 4-5 years

In her descriptions of the sisters at the beginning of the first chapter, the author informs us that Meg is 16, Jo is 15, Beth is 13, and Amy is 'the youngest' - later in the chapter, when the girls and Marmee are discussing playing Pilgrims Progress, we learn that Amy is 12.

From Quiz Little Miss Helpful

Answer: Mr. Laurence

Beth's playing comforts Mr. Laurence, while Laurie "mounts guard in the hall to warn away the servants" because Beth is extremely shy, and doesn't want people listening.

From Quiz The Inheritance

Answer: Lady Ida Clare

"Lady Ida Clare, the niece of Lady Hamilton, inherited her pride and coldness without the hidden tenderness her aunt possessed." ~ Chapter 2.

From Quiz Rose In Bloom

Answer: Baseball Star Club

Jamie was the youngest in the family and was also considered the marplot of the family because he always revealed things which were supposed to be kept secret; hence he was the terror of the family.

From Quiz "Little Women" by Louisa M. Alcott

Answer: Hannah

Hannah has known the March girls since they were babies, and she does most of the housework.

From Quiz Little Women

Answer: Theodore

He states, "My first name is Theodore, but when some boys started calling me Dora, I made them call me Laurie instead."

From Quiz An Old Fashioned Girl

Answer: Boston

Everyone including the Shaws thought that Polly Milton was a 'countrified' girl and didn't fit in the city.

From Quiz Eight Cousins

Answer: Archie

Archie is the oldest of the seven cousins. He is 16 at the beginning of the story. Jamie is the youngest, Prince Charlie is the second oldest, and Mac is the third oldest.

From Quiz The Little Women Series

Answer: Meg

Meg, the oldest, is the first sister to get married. She marries Laurie's tutor, John Brooke.

From Quiz Jo's Boys

Answer: Daisy

Nat loved Daisy beacuse she had complete faith in him and was the only person in Plumfield apart from Mother and Father Bhaer who believed that he didn't steal Tom's dollar.

From Quiz Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"

Answer: Theodore

His official name is Theodore Laurence, but everyone calls him Laurie. Later, Jo starts calling him Teddy.

From Quiz Little Women - Little Women-Good Wives

Answer: Ice cream, cake and French bonbons

From 'A Merry Christmas': 'It was like Marmee to get up a little treat for them, but anything so fine as this was unheard of since the departed days of plenty. There was ice cream, actually two dishes of it - pink and white - and cake, and fruit, and distracting French bonbons, and in the middle of the table four great bouquests of hot-house flowers!'

From Quiz The Inheritance

Answer: His brother

He found out that his brother loved the lady while hearing him say her name in his sleep.

From Quiz Rose In Bloom

Answer: Dulcinea Kennedy

Dulcinea was very small when Rose adopted her. Her mother died and her father was in prison, so Rose took her in.

From Quiz Little Women

Answer: Sucking limes

She had the misfortune to be the next one caught with limes in her desk, after the teacher had had enough of it.

From Quiz An Old Fashioned Girl

Answer: Katy

Katy was often left to comfort Maud when she started yelling or was upset.

From Quiz Jo's Boys

Answer: Bess

As a child, Amy was a talented artist. Bess inherits her gift for art and the two spend many hours together in the studio, painting.

From Quiz Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"

Answer: "Good Wives"

The book is now mostly published as just "Little Women", without giving Part Two the title "Good Wives".

From Quiz Little Women - Little Women-Good Wives

Answer: a turquoise ring

While they are looking through Aunt March's many treasures, Aunt's maid Esther privately tells Amy that '... I have a fancy that the little turquiose ring will be given to you when you go, for Madame approves your good behavior and charming manners...' which causes Amy to be a 'model of obedience' afterward. In her will she promises is to 'my dear sister Margaret', with the comment 'if I get it'. Note: Amy spells it 'turkquoise' in her will.

From Quiz Little Miss Helpful

Answer: Some handkerchiefs

Jo ridicules her for embroidering "Mother" on them, and Beth defends herself, saying that her mother's and Meg's initials were too similar. Meg scolds Jo and commends Beth for her decision. The incorrect answers are the gifts from the other girls: Meg: grey gloves Jo: Army slippers "the best kind" Amy: a bottle of cologne in a handsome bottle

From Quiz The Inheritance

Answer: Italy

Lord Hamilton brought her to his house in England when Edith was just a small child.

From Quiz "Little Women" by Louisa M. Alcott

Answer: Mr Laurence

Mr Laurence is the old man next door. He is very rich, lives in a mansion and has one grandson, called Laurie Laurence.

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