Q 01/05

Which US president of the early 1900s said that he worshiped the books of Louisa May Alcott?

A) William McKinley

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) William Howard Taft

Answer · why

B) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt counted himself a devoted reader, and he had company: Simone de Beauvoir and Ursula K. Le Guin also drew inspiration from her books...

Q 02/05

Which disease ended Louisa May Alcott's work as a Civil War army nurse after only six weeks?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Rheumatic fever

C) Typhoid fever

D) Smallpox

Answer · why

C) Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever left her critically ill partway through a planned three months, and her father had to travel south and take her home to Concord.

Q 03/05

Louisa May Alcott was the first woman in Concord, Massachusetts, to do what in an 1879 school board election?

A) Register to vote

B) Stand as a candidate

C) Count the ballots

D) Chair the meeting

Answer · why

A) Register to vote

Register to vote is what she did first, and then she urged the other women of Concord to follow her, only to be disappointed when few did.

Q 04/05

Which March sister in Little Women tours Europe with her aunt and comes home married to Laurie?

A) Meg

B) Jo

C) Beth

D) Amy

Answer · why

D) Amy

Amy is chosen for the trip that Jo had hoped to make, and Laurie, still stung by Jo's refusal, slowly falls in love with her abroad.

Q 05/05

By what pet name do the four March sisters call their mother, a character Louisa May Alcott based on her own?

A) Mamsie

B) Mumsie

C) Marmee

D) Maman

Answer · why

C) Marmee

Marmee was modelled on Abigail Alcott, who held the household together while her husband, a philosopher, often failed to bring in an income.