PART TWO: CHAPTER THIRTY -THREE - Jo's Journal Quiz — Little Women

What position does Jo take at Mrs. Kirke's boardinghouse?

• Cook and housekeeper
• Governess and seamstress
• Music teacher
• Secretary and bookkeeper

What act of kindness does Jo first witness from Professor Bhaer?

• He gives money to a beggar outside the house
• He carries a heavy coal hod upstairs for a small servant girl
• He reads bedtime stories to the Kirk children
• He mends a broken toy for Tina

How does Professor Bhaer discover that Jo has been mending his clothes?

• Mrs. Kirke tells him about Jo's kindness
• He catches Jo darning his sock while she practices German verbs
• He finds a note Jo left in his mended coat pocket
• Tina tells him she saw Jo sewing his buttons

Why does Professor Bhaer abandon the grammar book during Jo's German lessons?

• Jo asks him to use a different method
• Jo gets stuck in a "grammatical bog" and becomes so frustrated he throws the book on the floor
• The grammar book is too advanced for beginners
• Mrs. Kirke suggests fairy tales would be better

What does Professor Bhaer give Jo for New Year's Day?

• A German Bible
• A volume of Hans Andersen's fairy tales
• A fine Shakespeare inscribed "from my friend Friedrich Bhaer"
• A collection of German poetry

Who is Miss Norton?

• The French laundrywoman at Mrs. Kirke's
• A rich, cultivated maiden lady who befriends Jo and invites her to lectures
• One of Professor Bhaer's German students
• Jo's employer at a publishing house

What character does Jo disguise herself as at the New Year's Eve masquerade?

• Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Ophelia from Hamlet
• Mrs. Malaprop from The Rivals
• Lady Macbeth from Macbeth

What story does Jo tell the Kirk children to win them over?

• Cinderella
• The Seven Bad Pigs
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Constant Tin Soldier

Which of these events actually happened in this chapter?

What does "seminary" mean as Jo uses it in this chapter?

• A religious training school
• A school or academy, used humorously for her group of charges
• A formal lecture hall
• A private study room

What is a "standish" that Jo gives Professor Bhaer as a gift?

• A bookstand for reading
• A coat rack
• A stand for holding pens and ink; an inkstand
• A small writing desk

What are "Marchen" that Professor Bhaer proposes to read with Jo?

• German grammar exercises
• Academic essays on philosophy
• Fairy tales or folk tales (German)
• Newspaper editorials