Ch 11 - 20

Chapter 11—Anne's Impressions of Sunday School

Vocabulary:
pew - a compartment in the auditorium of a church providing seats for several persons
rebuke - to criticize sharply
recite - to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly
sermon - a religious speech delivered in public usually by a clergyman as a part of a worship service

Study Questions:  
1. Why is Anne so unhappy with the dresses that Marilla has selected?
2. What was Anne's reaction to her first experience at Sunday school?
3. Why was Marilla reluctant to criticize Anne for her comments about the minister's sermons?

Chapter 12—A Solemn Vow and a Promise

Vocabulary:
caper - to leap or prance about in a playful manner
dubious - of doubtful promise or outcome
vexed - debated or discussed at length
cordially - sincerely or deeply felt
poring - to gaze intently
dryad - a nymph (beautiful maiden dwelling in the mountains, forests, trees, and waters) living in woods
stingy - not generous or liberal

Study Questions:  
1. How did Marilla react to the news of the flower-wreathed hat?
2. Describe Diana Barry.
3. How do we know that Marilla is beginning to soften up to wards Anne?

Chapter 13—The Delights of Anticipation

Vocabulary:
infatuated - to inspire with a foolish or extravagant love or admiration
staccato - cut short or apart in performing: disconnected
faltered - to walk unsteadily: stumble
amethyst - a clear purple or bluish-violet variety of crystallized quartz that is often used as a jeweler's stone
sallow - of a grayish greenish yellow color
brusquely - blunt in manner or speech often to the point of ungracious harshness
bequeathed - to give or leave by will —used especially of personal property
smitten - to strike sharply or heavily especially with the hand or an implement held in the hand

Study Questions:  
1. Why is Anne so excited?
2. Why is Anne's kiss on the cheek so different from any other that Marilla has ever received?
3. Why did Anne cry when she saw her first real diamond?

Chapter 14—Anne's Confession

Vocabulary:
meddle - to interest oneself in what is not one's concern: interfere without right or propriety
rigmarole - confused or meaningless talk
defiance - willingness to contend or fight
steadfast - firmly fixed in place
primly - stiffly formal and proper

Study Questions:  
1. What are you doing when you are shelling peas?
2. What does Anne admit to doing when asked by Marilla about the amethyst brooch?
3. What does Marilla tell Matthew that she thinks has happened to her brooch?
4. Why does Anne make a false confession?
5. What actually happened to the brooch?

Chapter 15—A Tempest in the School Teapot

Vocabulary:
tempest - a great commotion over an unimportant matter
rustic - suitable for the country
pooled - combined
hieroglyphics - written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters
malicious - having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone
spasmodic - relating to or affected or characterized by spasm (violent jerking)
patriarchal - of, relating to, or being a father or founder

Study Questions:  
1. What does the expression, "a tempest in a teapot" mean?
2. Describe the Avonlea School.
3. How did the young students keep their bottles of milk cool?
4. Explain the expression, "the master is dead gone on her"?
5. Describe the scene when Gilbert teased Anne about her red hair.
6. Why was Matthew surprised to hear Marilla laughing?

Chapter 16—Diana is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results

Vocabulary:
aesthetic - of or relating to beauty or what is beautiful
lingered - to be slow in parting or in quitting something
obstinate - not easily overcome or removed

Study Questions:  
1. Why did Diana knock primly at the front door when visiting Anne?
2. Why did Diana have to go home early?
3. How was Marilla able to explain the mixup?
4. Why was Anne so disheartened at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 17—A New Interest in Life

Vocabulary:
ejected - to throw out especially by physical force, authority, or influence
staunchly - steadfast in loyalty or principle
relented - to cease resistance : give in
pathetic - causing one to feel tenderness, pity, or sorrow
dolefully - causing grief or affliction
effusion - free expression of words or feelings
perusal - to look over or through in a casual manner
ostentatiously - marked by or fond of vain, glorious and sometimes pretentious display

Study Questions:  
1. What did Anne ask Diana to give her as a keepsake of their friendship?
2. What was "testament reading"?
3. Why did Anne drop the "strawberry apple"?
4. Why was Anne so mortified when she tied with Gilbert on one of their assignments?
5. Discuss the origin of the expression, "In geometry Anne met her Waterloo".
 
Chapter 18—Anne to the Rescue

Vocabulary:
intoxicate - to excite or elate to the point of enthusiasm or frenzy
sundry - miscellaneous, various
wistful - full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy
courting - to engage in social activities leading to engagement and marriage
hasten - to move or act quickly
ipecac - the dried roots or rhizome of an ipecac that are the source of medicinal syrup used to cause vomiting
             in the treatment of accidental poisoning
croup - spasms in young children, with harsh cough, hoarseness, and difficulty breathing.

Study Questions:  
1. Who was the Canadian premier visiting Charlottetown?
2. Why did Diana come to Anne's home all in a panic?
3. Is the comment about the "French girl" racist in nature? Why or why not?
4. According to Marilla, why did Mrs. Rachel Lynde have no use for the premier?
5. Why is Mrs. Barry willing to forgive Anne for her past transgressions?

Chapter 19—A Concert, A Catastrophe, And A Confession

Vocabulary:
traipsing - to walk or travel about without apparent plan but with or without a purpose
curfew - an order or law requiring certain or all people to be off the streets at a stated time
retorted - to reply to an argument with an opposing argument
amiable - being friendly, sociable
dire – extreme need
jaunt - to make a usually short journey for pleasure
discreet - having or showing good judgment especially in conduct or speech
implored - to seriously call or ask for something

Study Questions:  
1. How do Diana and Anne signal one another?
2. Why does Marilla finally relent and allow Anne to go to Diana's house and the Debating Club concert at the
    hall?
3. Why does Anne get sand to clean?
4. Describe Anne's first encounter with Aunt Josephine.
5. According to Miss Barry (Aunt Josephine) why was she unpacking her valise?


Chapter 20—A Good Imagination Gone Wrong

Vocabulary:
capricious - apt to change suddenly
resurrection - the state of one risen from the dead
lurked - to lie in wait in a  secret place especially for an evil purpose
reverie - the condition of being lost in thought
limpid - clear and simple in style

Study Questions:  
1. Why did Mr. Phillips give some Mayflowers to Prissy Andrews?
2. What special anniversary occurs in this chapter?
3. How does Anne try to convince Marilla that ghosts do exist?