Q 01/05

Who called Anne the dearest child 'since the immortal Alice'?

A) Henry James

B) Mark Twain

C) Jack London

D) O. Henry

Answer · why

B) Mark Twain

Mark Twain: his praise crowned a turnaround for a manuscript that every publisher Montgomery first tried had rejected, and that she had put away in a ...

Q 02/05

Anne is sent by mistake to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had asked the orphanage for what?

A) A girl to keep house

B) A pair of twins

C) A boy to help on the farm

D) A grown farmhand

Answer · why

C) A boy to help on the farm

A boy to help on the farm: Matthew was sixty and slowing down, but the message went astray, and when he drove to the station to collect his new farmha...

Q 03/05

Shy Matthew Cuthbert gives Anne a Christmas dress with which fashionable feature she had longed for?

A) A hoop skirt

B) Puffed sleeves

C) A sailor collar

D) A long train

Answer · why

B) Puffed sleeves

Puffed sleeves: too flustered to ask the shop girl for a dress, he came home with a garden rake and a load of brown sugar instead, then had to ask a n...

Q 04/05

When Marilla first asks her name, Anne begs to be called which 'perfectly elegant' name instead?

A) Rosalind

B) Cordelia

C) Evangeline

D) Ophelia

Answer · why

B) Cordelia

Cordelia: Marilla will have none of it, so Anne settles for her real name on one condition, that it is spelled with an 'e', because 'A-n-n looks dread...

Q 05/05

To be allowed to go to a picnic, Anne falsely confesses to losing which treasure of Marilla's?

A) A pearl necklace

B) A gold locket

C) An amethyst brooch

D) A silver thimble

Answer · why

C) An amethyst brooch

An amethyst brooch: Marilla grounds her until she owns up, so Anne invents a tale of dropping it off a bridge, only for Marilla to find it snagged on ...