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1. What is the name of the newspaper that the March girls are pretending to read from when they are in the attic dressed as men?

Answer: The Pickwick Society

"The Pickwick Society" newspaper is shown for the first time when the girls are acting as men in the attic. Play acting in the attic is their way of having a good time in the Civil War era. "The Pickwick Society" is shown again after Beth (Claire Danes) dies, when Jo is in the attic putting a few of Beth's personal items in her hope chest.

2. While the girls are in the attic dressed as men, what does Amy say her Christmas wish is?

Answer: Drawing pencils

Amy is the March girl, played by Kirsten Dunst (young Amy) and Samantha Mathis (grown-up Amy), who wishes for drawing pencils. She is the one who goes to France with Great Aunt March to study painting and art. As a wedding present to Meg and John Brooke, she paints flowers on their new china, which implies her love and gift for art.

3. What are the names of Laurie's two friends from Harvard?

Answer: Averill Watson and Fred Vaughan

Friedrich Bhaer (Gabriel Byrne) falls in love with Jo (Winona Ryder) while she is writing and teaching at the boarding house in New York. John Brooke (Eric Stoltz) is Theodore (A.K.A. Teddy and Laurie) Laurence's (Christian Bale) tutor, and Meg's husband. Averill Watson and Fred Vaughan are the friends that Laurie brings home with him from Harvard the night that Mr. Laurence gives Beth his daughter's piano. Fred Vaughan courts Amy while she is studying painting in France.

4. According to Meg, who is the girl with four proposals and twenty pairs of white gloves?

Answer: Belle Gardiner

Sally Moffat is one of the girls who has a coming out party that Meg (Trini Alvarado) attends. This is where Meg speaks of wanting to see what it is like to have four proposals and twenty pairs of white gloves, like Belle Gardiner. When Amy and Jo are getting Meg ready for the party, Amy says she wants to know all about Belle's ring when they return. Belle, who criticizes Meg's modest dress, shows off her ring. Louisa May Alcott is the author of "Little Women", a novel which is based on the lives of Louisa and her own three sisters. Nell Watson is the name of the actress in the play that Laurie, John, Jo, and Meg attend.

5. Whose poems do Friedrich and Jo recite by the fireplace while her book is airing out (after the accident in the mud)?

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".

6. What is the name of the house that the March family resides in?

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.

7. When he first sees her, how does Friedrich know that Jo is a writer?

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.

8. What nationality is the family that Beth is left to help while Marmee is away tending to father?

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.

9. What is the nickname that Marmee has for Beth when she arrives home for the first time at the beginning of the movie?

Answer: Cricket

Cricket is the name Marmee calls Beth after she kisses her on the cheek and Beth hands her a blanket or apron. Cricket is a pet name that Marmee uses for Beth only that one time. Beetle is the name Jo calls Amy when they are sitting on the bed playing with the cats and rewriting Jo's book after Amy almost drowns in the skating pond.

10. When filming the skating pond scene, what was used on the ice to make it appear as if it were covered in snow?

Answer: Corn starch

Corn starch was the only thing that director Gillian Armstrong tried that appeared as real snow when the camera filmed it. The corn starch was also environmentally safe. This detail can be learned from watching the extras on the special edition DVD version of the film.

Source: Author twinklingstars

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"Little Women" (1994) Trivia Quiz

If you have eyes and ears for detail, and are a true fan of this film, you should do well on the quiz. Knowledge of the special features included on the DVD is required for one question.

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