Little Women - Study Questions

As you read through each chapter, answer the questions and note down in your
journals any interesting figurative language use, key events, or imagery.

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
1. The March girls' names are Meg, Beth, Amy, and what? 
(a) Marmee
(b) Sarah
(c) Laurie
(d) Josephine
2. Who is Marmee? 
(a) the neighbor
(b) the mother
(c) the servant girl
(d) the dog
3. Marmee receives a letter from her husband, who is where? 
(a) visiting his brother
(b) visiting a friend
(c) serving in the army
(d) in the hospital
4. What does each girl find under her pillow one Christmas morning? 
(a) a book
(b) some candy
(c) a note
(d) some money
5. What is the name of the family's long time domestic servant? 
(a) Molly
(b) Sarah
(c) Beth
(d) Hannah
6. What is the last name of the family that the girls give their
Christmas breakfast to? 
(a) Harrington
(b) Harris
(c) Hammond
(d) Hummel
Chapter 3 | Chapter 4

7. Meg and Jo are invited to a New Year's party where? 

(a) The Smith home
(b) The Gardiner home
(c) The Bradford home
(d) The Laurence home
8. What happens to Jo's dress that causes her to be extra shy at the
party? 
(a) It gets stepped on.
(b) It gets ripped.
(c) It gets stained.
(d) It gets burned.
9. Who does Jo meet, while trying to avoid the crowds at the party?
(a) Theodore Laurence
(b) Thomas Harrison
(c) Harold Harvey
(d) Hannah Abbot
10. After the holidays Meg gets a job as what? 
(a) a seamstress
(b) a governess
(c) a teacher
(d) a cook
11. At dinnertime, Beth tells the family about seeing Mr. Laurence
buy what at the market? 
(a) a bouquet of flowers
(b) a fish
(c) a melon
(d) a watch
12. Marmee tells a tale at dinner about meeting a man who had four
sons in the war, but two of them did what? 
(a) got seriously injured
(b) died
(c) came home safe
(d) got sick

Chapter 5 | Chapter 6
13. Jo goes to the Laurence house and does what unusual thing to
get Laurie to let her in? 
(a) knocks on his window
(b) throws a small stone at his window
(c) yells at his window
(d) throws a snowball at his window

14. Laurie has not been out since the party because of what? 
(a) He had a cold.
(b) He had to study.
(c) The weather was too bad.
(d) Mr. Laurence made him stay in.
15. Left alone in the library, Jo studies what? 
(a) a portrait of Mr. Laurence
(b) a portrait of Laurie
(c) a book
(d) a paper on the desk
16. What instrument does Mr. Laurence use to convince Beth to visit
more often? 
(a) piano
(b) violin
(c) flute
(d) drum
17. To thank Mr. Laurence for being so kind, Beth makes him what?
(a) a cake
(b) slippers
(c) a blanket
(d) cookies
18. Mr. Laurence gives Beth a gift that originally belonged to whom? 
(a) his daughter
(b) his wife
(c) his granddaughter
(d) his grandson

Chapter 7 | Chapter 8
19. Amy gets punished for bringing what to school? 
(a) strawberries
(b) limes
(c) chocolates
(d) grapes
20. Who gets Amy in trouble at school? 
(a) Jessica White
(b) Jenny Snow
(c) Jessica Snow
(d) Jenny Smith

21. How is Amy punished at school? 

(a) She is expelled.
(b) She gets detained after school.
(c) She has to write lines.
(d) Her hands are slapped.
22. To get even with Jo for not letting her go to a play, Amy does
what? 
(a) She throws Jo's favorite doll away.
(b) She tells everyone a bad rumor about Jo.
(c) She rips Jo's dress.
(d) She burns Jo's manuscript.
23. Laurie and Jo go to a nearby river to do what? 
(a) swim
(b) fish
(c) talk privately
(d) skate
24. Amy follows Jo and Laurie to the river and does what? 
(a) argues with Jo
(b) gets lost
(c) apologizes to Jo
(d) falls through the ice

Chapter 9 | Chapter 10
25. Meg is invited to whose house for two weeks? 
(a) Hannah Abbot's
(b) Christine Harrison's
(c) Laurie Laurence's
(d) Annie Moffat's
26. Who tells Meg that they are not impressed by her "fuss and
feathers" at the party? 
(a) Jo
(b) Laurie
(c) Beth
(d) Annie
27. A rumor is circulating that Mrs. March wants to arrange a match
between Laurie and who? 
(a) Beth
(b) Jo
(c) Amy
(d) Meg
28. The girls create a secret society with what characters based on
what? 
(a) Pilgrim's Progress
(b) suggestions from Marmee
(c) Jo's imagination
(d) The Pickwick Papers
29. Who do the girls decide to allow in the club? 
(a) Hannah
(b) Jenny
(c) Laurie
(d) Marmee
30. Laurie does what during one of the girl's club meetings? 
(a) He knocks on the door.
(b) He hides under the bed.
(c) He steps out of the closet.
(d) He throws a stone at the window.