Gone With The Wind Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett
O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's what?
A: Cotton plantation in Georgia.
Who does she live with?
A: With her parents and two sisters.
Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes, whom she secretly
loves, is getting married to whom?
A: His cousin, Melanie Hamilton.
The engagement is to be announced the next day at a what?
A: A barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.
At the Twelve Oaks party, Scarlett notices that she is
being admired by whom?
A: Rhett Butler.
What does Scarlett secretly confess to Ashley?
A: That she loves him.
What does Ashley do?
A: He rebuffs her by responding that he and the sweet Melanie are more
compatible.
What interrupts the barbecue?
A: The declaration of war and the men rush to enlist.
What does Melanie's younger brother Charles do?
A: He proposes to Scarlet.
Scarlet does not love him but consents anyway and they are
married before what?
A: Before he leaves to fight.
Scarlett is quickly widowed when Charles dies from what?
A: A bout of pneumonia and measles while serving in the Confederate
Army.
Where does Scarlett's mother send her to cheer her up?
A: To the Hamilton home in Atlanta.
Scarlett, who should not attend a party while in deep
mourning, attends what?
A: A charity bazaar in Atlanta with Melanie.
Rhett, now a blockade runner for the Confederacy, makes a
what?
A: Surprise appearance.
The men are invited to offer bids for ladies to
dance with
them to raise money for what?
A: The confederate war effort.
Butler makes a very big bid for a dance with Scarlett and,
to the disapproval of the guests, what does she do?
A: She dances with him.
While Ashley is visiting on
Christmas furlough, what does
Scarlett do?
A: She makes another unsuccessful appeal to Ashley.
They share a private and passionate what in the parlor on
Christmas Day, just before he returns to war?
A: Kiss.
Eight months later, as the city is besieged by the Union
Arm, what happens to Melanie?
A: She goes into premature and difficult labor.
She keeps her promise to Ashley to do what?
A: To take care of Melanie,
Scarlett calls upon who to bring her home to Tara with
Melanie, Prissy, and the baby?
A: Rhett Butler.
Rhett shows up with a horse and wagon and takes them out
through the burning city, but instead of accompanying her all the way to Tara,
he sends her on her way with what?
A: A nearly dead horse, helplessly frail Melanie, her baby, and tearful Prissy.
Once home, Scarlett finds Twelve Oaks has been what?
A: Burned, ruined and deserted.
Scarlett learns that her mother has just died of what?
A: Typhoid fever and her father's mind has begun to fail.
