Chapters 1-10

Question 1

Who said, “Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well-“

Answer 1

Mrs. Rachel Lynde

Question 2

What did Mrs. Lynde believe the Cuthberts’ adopted child would do?

Answer 2

burn down Green Gables

Question 3

Where is Avonlea located?

Answer 3

Prince Edward Island, Canada

Question 4

What is the relationship between Matthew and Marilla

Answer 4

brother and sister

Question 5

owners of Green Gables

Answer 5

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert

Question 6

The Cuthberts’ nosy neighbor

Answer 6

Mrs. Rachel Lynde

Question 7

What is Matthew mortally afraid of?

Answer 7

women and girls

Question 8

Who does Anne think she might be able to get to marry her?

Answer 8

a foreign missionary

Question 9

Who said, “I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I can never be in the morning.”

Answer 9

Anne

Question 10

Why is Anne plunged into the depths of despair once sh arrives in Green Gables?

Answer 10

the Cuthberts want a boy

Question 11

Where is Anne’s bedroom located?

Answer 11

east gable room

Question 12

Who first decides that the Cuthberts should keep Anne?

Answer 12

Matthew

Question 13

Anne’s preferred name

Answer 13

Cordelia

Question 14

skillfully

Answer 14

deftly

Question 15

liveliness, animation

Answer 15

vivacity

Question 16

wild, unruly

Answer 16

tempestuous

Question 17

Who said, “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

Answer 17

Anne

Question 18

Who said, “I guess it doesn’t matter what a person’s name is as long as he behaves himself.”

Answer 18

Marilla

Question 19

What is Anne’s buried hope in her graveyard of buried hopes?

Answer 19

her hair will not always be red

Question 20

the scrubwoman who took Anne in when her parents died

Answer 20

Mrs. Thomas

Question 21

Who said, “I’ve been thinking over the idea until I’ve got kind of used to it. It seems a sort of duty.”

Answer 21

Marilla

Question 22

Who has the authority in Anne’s raising?

Answer 22

Marilla

Question 23

more than enough, excess

Answer 23

superfluous

Question 24

Why doesn’t Anne care about God?

Answer 24

He gave her red hair.

Question 25

lacking reverence or due respect

Answer 25

irreverent

Question 26

Who said, “Oh, Miss — Marilla, how much you miss!”

Answer 26

Anne

Question 27

Why is Anne concerned that Marilla misses so much in life?

Answer 27

she doesn’t use her imagination

Question 28

What is Anne’s shortcoming?

Answer 28

daydreaming

Question 29

What is the one thing Anne could never endure in a bosom friend?

Answer 29

red hair

Question 30

Anne’s bosom friend

Answer 30

Diana Barry

Question 31

Who said, “You can shut me up in a dark, damp dungeon inhabited by snakes and toads and feed me only on bread and water and I shall not complain.”

Answer 31

Anne

Question 32

Who said, “Well, they didn’t pick you for your looks, thats sure and certain.”

Answer 32

Mrs. Rachel Lynde

Question 33

Marilla first witnesses Anne’s short tempter when Anne yells at who?

Answer 33

Mrs. Lynde

Question 34

What is the serious disposition Marilla discovers about Anne?

Answer 34

bad temper

Question 35

Who said, “But don’t be too hard on her, Marilla. Recollect she hasn’t ever had anyone to teach her right.”

Answer 35

Matthew

Question 36

Who said, “When did you ever hear of me starving people into good behavior?”

Answer 36

Marilla

Question 37

Who convinces Anne to apologize to Mrs. Lynde?

Answer 37

Matthew

Question 38

Anne’s apology becomes a triumph because she turns it into what?

Answer 38

a performance

Question 39

remorseful, repentant person

Answer 39

penitent