Q 01/05

What name does Sara Crewe give the doll she chooses with her father before he sails back to India?

A) Emily

B) Clara

C) Alice

D) Louisa

Answer · why

A) Emily

Emily was named before she was bought: Sara picked the name first, then searched the toy shops with her father for the right doll. She wanted a friend...

Q 02/05

Which runaway pet from the house next door leads Sara Crewe to her rescuer in A Little Princess?

A) A parrot

B) A monkey

C) A mongoose

D) A lapdog

Answer · why

B) A monkey

A monkey slips over the roof into Sara's attic on a freezing night, and she carries it home the next morning. That errand brings her face to face with...

Q 03/05

Which venture, run by an old school friend, swallows Captain Crewe's fortune in A Little Princess?

A) Tea plantations

B) A railway company

C) Diamond mines

D) Cotton mills

Answer · why

C) Diamond mines

Diamond mines sounded like the Arabian Nights to the schoolgirls, but the venture looked ruined when the captain died. The mines later proved rich, wh...

Q 04/05

Which child star played Sara Crewe in the 1939 Technicolor film The Little Princess?

A) Judy Garland

B) Jane Withers

C) Bonita Granville

D) Shirley Temple

Answer · why

D) Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple made it her first film shot entirely in Technicolor, and it proved her last major success as a child star. The script gave the tale a n...

Q 05/05

Which Mexican director made his first American feature with the 1995 film of A Little Princess?

A) Guillermo del Toro

B) Alfonso Arau

C) Alfonso Cuarón

D) Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Answer · why

C) Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón had made just one feature in Mexico before it. He went on to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, then won Best Director Os...