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Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1868

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Reading Check, Multiple Choice & Short Answer Quizzes

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Preface-Part 1, Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. Who provides the girls with a Christmas dinner?

2. Where is Mr. March?

3.  Who does Jo dance with at the party?

Multiple Choice

1. What book does Marmee encourage the girls to model their lives on?

A) Ivanhoe

B) Great Expectations

C) Pilgrim’s Progress

D) The Pickwick Papers

2. Which sister worries that her nose is too flat?

A) Amy

B) Meg

C) Jo

D) Beth

3. Why does Marmee think Mr. Laurence doesn’t like the piano?

A) He has a history of disliking loud noises.

B) It hasn’t been played for a decade.

C) He instructed her not to let her children play it.

D) His son’s Italian wife played the piano.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why isn’t Marmee home on Christmas morning?

2. How has the March family fallen on hard times?

3. What does Marmee encourage the girls to do when they experience burdens?

Part 1, Chapters 6-10

Reading Check

1. What does Amy do to earn Jo’s hatred?

2. What gets Amy in trouble at school?

3. What is the Pickwick Portfolio?

Multiple Choice

1. What does Marmee reveal to Jo in private?

A) that she enjoys having Mr.

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