The Life of Lucy Maud Montgomery Quiz

Answer: Yes

Maud was born November 30, 1874, in Clifton (later New London), PEI. You might be interested to know that this only happened by way of fate: Maud's great-grandparents sailed from Scotland in 1769 on a ship bound for Quebec. Mary Montgomery, Maud's great-grandmother, was so seasick that when the ship anchored off PEI in order to pick up fresh water, she flatly refused to reboard. Mary's husband, Hugh, had no other choice but to settle his family on Prince Edward Island. Thus, this is where Maud was born about 100 years later!

Answer: 21 months

Although she was not yet 2-years-old when she lost her mother, Maud claims to have memories of seeing her mother laid out in the family parlour. She could actually describe the scene very vividly according to family members!

Answer: her maternal grandparents

Although Hugh adored his daughter, he didn't object when the Macneills offered to raise young Maud. He eventually moved to Saskatchewan where he settled permanently. Maud also spent a good amount of time in the home of her paternal grandparents in Park Corner, PEI.

Answer: typhoid fever

While she was ill, she suffered from hallucinations where she imagined her grandmother to be a woman called 'Mrs. Murphy' whom Maud hated. She wouldn't let her grandmother go near her.

Answer: Grandfather Montgomery

Her father's father, Donald Montgomery, was described by those who knew him as a 'handsome, stately gentleman.' Maud, herself thought of him as 'a dear, old heart.'

Answer: False

Unfortunately, Maud had a very unhappy childhood and her teen years were worse. Her grandparents were elderly, worn out, and terribly strict. They had raised six children but felt obliged to look after Maud after her mother passed away. They didn't understand Maud, who had a vivid imagination and a very lively mind.

They stiffled her as much as possible and were sometimes unintentionally cruel. Maud often had to escape into her own imagination to find any source of happiness.

Answer: Herman Leard

She received marriage proposals from Simpson and McLeod. She was actually engaged to Simpson for about one year all the while abhorring him... yet she didn't know how to break it off. She turned McLeod down right away. In the end, she married the Reverend McDonald but claims that Herman Leard was her true love.

Although she was passionately in love with Leard, she felt that they were not suited to each other and thought that a marriage to him would end in misery in a matter of years. She ended up regretting her decision when Leard died of influenza shortly after their break-up.

Answer: her hair

Maud had thick, glossy brown hair that when let down, hung past her knees. She was said to always arrange it to cover her high forehead. Maud had gray-blue eyes and very long lashes, high cheekbones and a very small mouth. Certainly, something about her intrigued men, for she had no shortage of male admirers.

Answer: Maud would not marry as long as her grandmother Macneill was living.

Maud was virtually tied to her grandmother after her grandfather passed away in March of 1898. She felt her obligation to her grandmother very keenly and that feeling was only fueled by her grandmother's constant demands and whining. Although Mrs. Macneill had several children in the area who could have taken their mother in, they left that burden on Maud. Maud finally gained her freedom when her grandmother died of pneumonia in her 86th year.

Answer: Yes

Maud was 36-years-old at the time of her marriage. She has her first son, Chester Cameron, in 1912 when she was 37, and her second son, Ewan Stuart, at the age of 40. Chester went on to become a lawyer and Stuart a doctor. Maud spent most of her married life in a manse with her husband and sons in Ontario, Canada, but she often returned to her beloved PEI. Maud passed away in 1942 at the age of 68.

She had written over 22 novels. She is buried in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island beside her husband, Ewan McDonald.