Little Women Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868) — 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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- Who are the four March sisters? — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. The little women of the title, with Marmee above them.
- What does Jo sell to help fund Marmee's trip to Washington? — Her hair. Her 'one beauty', cropped for twenty-five dollars.
- Who is the rich boy next door? — Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence. Grandson of the neighbor Mr Laurence; Jo's dearest friend.
- Which sister declines into gentle illness after scarlet fever? — Beth. She recovers for a while — then fades in the second half, one of literature's quietest deaths.
- Whom does Meg marry? — John Brooke, Laurie's tutor. The first wedding of the family, on modest means.
- Whom does Amy marry? — Laurie. In Europe, after Jo has refused him — the plot point readers argue about to this day.
- Whom does Jo marry? — Professor Friedrich Bhaer. The German professor she meets boarding in New York; together they found Plumfield school.
- What is the novel's relationship to Alcott's life? — It closely mirrors her own family and sisters. Jo is Alcott herself; Beth is her sister Lizzie, Amy her sister May, Meg her sister Anna.
About Little Women
Alcott's 1868 novel of the four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — growing up in genteel poverty while their father is away in the Civil War. Loosely based on Alcott's own family, it follows the girls from Christmas sacrifice to three weddings and a death. The novel runs about 184,000 words (roughly 449 pages in a standard paperback) — about 12 hours and 53 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read Little Women or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy — warm, domestic, episodic; the original also has two parts. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women 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 Little Women to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
More book quizzes
Pride and Prejudice quiz, Jane Eyre quiz, The Catcher in the Rye quiz, Emma quiz, 1984 quiz, Animal Farm quiz, Brave New World quiz — or browse every book quiz on the site. For scale, Little Women is the 14th longest of the 133 classics timed here — shorter than Jane Eyre but longer than Great Expectations.
Doing the whole author? Our Louisa May Alcott books in order guide lists every book with the best entry point.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Little Women quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Louisa May Alcott's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Little Women 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 Little Women quiz hard?
Easy — warm, domestic, episodic; the original also has two parts. 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 Little Women reading itself?
About 184,000 words — roughly 449 pages, or about 12 hours and 53 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read Little Women. It runs 47 chapters, averaging 3,914 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.