a little princess questions
chapter 1
1.what was"the place"sara and her father often talked about?what was sara's attitude towards it.why?it was a school called m**s minchin select seminary for young ladies in the england.
2.why was the house of select seminary for young ladies like m**s minchin?because m**s minchin and the house of select seminary for young ladies were both tall dull respectable and ugly,
3.was sara a regular"beautiful child?if not,why did m**s minchin say so?no,she was not.m**s minchin say that because captain crew was a rich man and willing to spend a great deal of money on h** little daughter.
4.according to mr.crewe,what was sara's reading habit?sara was always starving for the new book to gobble and found great big fat books to read.
5.who was emily?what did she look like?why did sara want her so badly?emily ** a doll.she was a large doll,but not too large to carry about easily;she had naturally curling golden-brown hair,which hung like a mantle about her,and her eyes were a deep,clear,gray-blue,with soft,thick eyelashes which were real eyelashes and not mere painted lines.because emily liked an old friend for sara.
6.according to m**s minchin,sara was a spoiled girl.was that true?why?yes,it was.because m**s minchin thought sara’s dress and items were too expensive.and her father always sat**fied sara’s w**hes.
7.why did sara become m**s minchin's"show pupil?sara had a lot of goods such as velvet dresses trimmed with costly furs.these things can make her like a little princess.
chapter 2
1.could sara speak french before her first lesson?how did she pick up the language?yes,she could.her papa and other people had always spoken it to her so she had read it and written it as she had read and written engl**h.
2.why did m**s minchin become so angry after she learned that sara could speak perfect french?because of sara,m**s minchin could not make the naughty children under her control.
because sara made m**s minchin lost face when m**s minchin wanted sara to learn french.
3.please describe sara with two adjectives and use some examples from the book to illustrate your opinion.
kindhearted and intelligent.she was friendly to everyone,such as ermengarde and becky.she liked reading books,making and telling stories,sometimes she will told some abstruse speech.
chapter 3
1.why did sara want to be friends with ermengarde?because sara had sympathy for ermengarde so she wanted to be friend with ermengarde.
2.why did sara feel sorry when m**s minchin shouted at ermengarde?because it was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.
3.how did sara and ermengarde spend the hour before lunchtime together in sara's room?sara told stories to ermengarde.
4.did ermengarde love her father?why?no,she didn't.because ermengarde's father made her under too much pressure to study.
5.what were ermengarde's feelings towards sara?can you use some examples from the book to illustrate your opinion?ermengarde worshipped sara very much.
it was almost too much for her suddenly to find herself l**tening to a child her own age who seemed not only quite familiar with these words,but apparently knew any number of others,and could mix them up with verbs as if they were mere trifles.
chapter 4
1.how did sara deal with such a lot of exaggerated and untruthful pra**e?she just thought a lot of nice accidents h**e happened to her.
2.why did l**inia hate sara so much?did sara h**e the same feelings towards l**inia?because of sara's arrival,l**inia was not the leader in the school
3.what's lottie's strongest weapon?how did she get the weapon?①her strongest weapon was that in some mysterious way she had found out that a very small girl who had lost her mother was a person who ought to be pitied and made much of.
②she had probably heard some grown-up people talking her over in the early days,after her mother's death.so it became her habit to make great use of th** knowledge.
4.how did sara stop lottie from crying?sara told lottie a new idea and she knew that a new idea would stop a crying child when nothing else would.
5.how did sara become the adopted mother of lottie?do you think she was qualified?why?because lottie did not h**e a mother so sara and lottie played that lottie was sara's little girl and emily shall be lottie's s**ter.
chapter 5
1.who was becky and how did people in the school treat her?becky was a small servant and people in the school called her to do everything.
2.why did sara ra**e her voice when becky was wo**ng in her room?because becky was deeply interested in the story and that she was doing her work slowly in the hope of catching a word from sara.
3.why did becky s**e sara's room until the last?because they were not like the other rooms they were nice and luxury.
4.what did becky think sara would do when she was found sleeping in sara's room?she thought sara would be angry and go to tell the m**sus.
5.why did the author say that becky was not the same one when she left sara's room?because sara had warmed and fed her.
chapter 6
1.what was the exciting thing written in mr.crewe's letter to sara?why did it become the topic of everyone's conversation for days?a large tract of land upon which diamonds had been found,and a friend of h** was engaged in developing the mines.because"diamond mines"sounded so like the arabian nights that no one could be indifferent.
2.why did sara pretend to be a princess?was that because she was a showy girl?because sara thought that being a princess can help her help poor people.no,she wasn’t.
3.why did becky pin m**s amelia's card on her gift for sara?because becky had no card for sara,and m**s amelia had just throw her card away.
4.can you describe two special gifts given to sara on her eleventh birthday?a square pincushion,made of not quite clean red flannel,and black pins had been stuck into it to form the word’menny hapy returns.’
a wonderful doll from her father.
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