Anne of Green Gables Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- What mistake brings Anne to Green Gables? — Marilla and Matthew asked for a boy from the asylum. Matthew goes to the station for a farm boy and finds a girl who talks the whole ride home — and cannot bring himself to say so.
- Who effectively decides Anne will stay? — Matthew, quietly making it impossible to send her back. Marilla's grudgingness is the comedy engine; it is shy Matthew, heroically saying nothing and then everything, who seals it.
- Who is Diana Barry to Anne? — Her 'bosom friend' — a kindred spirit from next door. The pact is sworn almost immediately, with full ceremony — Diana is the audience Anne's imagination has been waiting for.
- What ruins Diana's visit to tea? — Anne serves her currant wine instead of raspberry cordial. Diana goes home drunk on what she thinks is cordial, and Mrs. Barry bans the friendship — the first real heartbreak of the book.
- Why does Anne crack her slate over Gilbert Blythe's head? — He calls her 'Carrots'. 'Carrots' — the one word her dramatic self cannot forgive. She holds the grudge for years, which is the book's running joke and its running wound.
- What is the Lady of Shalott incident? — Anne acts out Tennyson's poem in a leaky rowboat. Sculling down the pond in white drapery playing the doomed maiden, she springs the leak, floats to a bridge-piling — and is rescued by the last person she'd choose.
- What happens to Matthew near the end? — He dies of a heart attack after news of the bank's failure. The quiet death of the book's quietest character lands harder than any drama; it is the turn that makes the ending a choice rather than a default.
- What does Anne give up in the final chapters? — A college scholarship, to stay with Marilla at Green Gables. Matthew's death threatens the farm; Anne defers the Avery scholarship, teaches locally, and calls the bend in the road a prospect — the book's whole ethics in one decision.
About Anne of Green Gables
An orphan girl with red hair and an unstoppable vocabulary is sent by mistake to a brother and sister who asked for a boy, and talks her way into their lives and the village's heart. It is the warmest book on this shelf — a comedy of feeling in which being delighted by the world is the whole plot, and loving it out loud is the heroine's only sin. The novel runs about 99,000 words (roughly 320 pages in a standard paperback) — about 6 hours and 56 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read Anne of Green Gables or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy — episodic, funny, sentimental in the best-regulated way. Anne's flights of fancy run long sentences but the vocabulary is plain; it is a comfort read for adults and a first classic for young readers alike. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables sits in our romance & coming of age shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for Anne of Green Gables to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
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Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Anne of Green Gables quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering L. M. Montgomery's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Anne of Green Gables book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Anne of Green Gables quiz hard?
Easy — episodic, funny, sentimental in the best-regulated way. Anne's flights of fancy run long sentences but the vocabulary is plain; it is a comfort read for adults and a first classic for young readers alike. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Anne of Green Gables reading itself?
About 99,000 words — roughly 320 pages, or about 6 hours and 56 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read Anne of Green Gables. It runs 38 chapters, averaging 2,605 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.