Question
For 10 points each, answer some questions on coming-of-age novels about girls.
[10e] In this L.M. Montgomery novel, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert mistakenly adopt the title red-headed orphan girl.
ANSWER: Anne of Green Gables
[10h] L.M. Montgomery was supposedly inspired to write Anne of Green Gables after a visit to this town, which was home to Louisa May Alcott and inspired the setting of novel Little Women.
ANSWER: Concord, Massachusetts
[10m] At the time of publishing, Little Women received significant backlash over the "radical" portrayal of protagonist Jo March. More recently, books by this children's author have been challenged, such as one in which a girl with a Christian mother and a Jewish father starts a club called the Pre-Teen Sensations.
ANSWER: Judy Blume (The novel is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.)
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Summary
2023 NASAT | 06/17/2023 | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 78% | 22% | 11% |
Data
Missouri A | Asia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asia B | New Jersey B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Illinois White | Illinois Blue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
California | Kentucky A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Missouri B | Kentucky B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Pennsylvania | Liberia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
New Jersey A | Maryland Red | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio | Illinois Orange | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Virginia | Arkansas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |