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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSMatthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla have never married, and they run a farm called Green Gables in the village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Matthew is sixty and hired help is hard to find, so they send for an orphan boy from an asylum in Nova Scotia to help on the farm. When shy Matthew drives to the train station, though, the only child waiting is Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old girl with two long red braids, sitting on a pile of shingles. Matthew can't bring himself to tell her about the mistake, so he drives her home while she chatters most of the way and gives new names to the prettiest places they pass. Marilla means to send her straight back, but Matthew would like to keep her. Anne has never had a real home. She also has a quick temper about her red hair, a huge imagination, a talent for getting into scrapes, and a lifelong dream of finding a "bosom friend."
Free Battle of the Books questions for Anne of Green Gables
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Anne of Green Gables. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book has a neighbor knitted sixteen cotton-warp quilts at her kitchen window?
✓ Answer
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The story opens with Mrs. Rachel Lynde, who runs the Sewing Circle and props up the Church Aid Society, yet still finds hours to sit at her kitchen window knitting quilts. Anybody going in or out of the village has to pass the hill road under her all-seeing eye.
- First half
In what book does a girl admit she cried on seeing a real diamond because it wasn't purple?
✓ Answer
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Admiring Marilla's amethyst brooch, Anne says amethysts are what she used to think diamonds were like. Before she had ever seen one, she imagined diamonds as lovely glimmering purple stones, so when she saw a real diamond in a lady's ring she was so disappointed she cried.
- First half
In what book does a schoolgirl save her best friend's croupy little sister with dose after dose of ipecac?
✓ Answer
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
When three-year-old Minnie May falls ill with croup while her parents are away in town, Diana runs to Anne for help. Anne, who learned all about croup with the Hammond children, gives the little girl dose after dose of ipecac through the long night until she starts to get better. The doctor Matthew brings from Spencervale arrives at three o'clock, after the worst is over, and later tells the Barrys she saved the baby's life.
- Second half
In what book is a layer cake for the minister's wife flavored with liniment from an old vanilla bottle?
✓ Answer
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Marilla had poured leftover anodyne liniment into an empty bottle labeled Best Vanilla, and Anne, with a bad cold, could not smell the difference. Mrs. Allan bravely eats her piece and later tells a weeping Anne it is just a funny mistake that anybody might make.
- Second half
In what book does a girl rescued from a bridge pile refuse to be friends with her rescuer?
✓ Answer
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Playing Elaine the lily maid, Anne drifts down the pond in Mr. Barry's leaky boat and has to scramble onto a bridge pile until Gilbert Blythe rows by. When he apologizes for teasing her about her hair and asks if they can be good friends, she coldly tells him no.
- Near the end
In what book does a homesick student count her tears, three, four, five, in a boarding-house room?
✓ Answer
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
On her first night at Queen's, Anne sits alone in a bare little room facing a hard street full of telephone wires and thinks of her white room at home. She tries not to cry and counts each tear as it falls, and Josie Pye walks in just before the flood comes.
