CHAPTER XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor

Anne had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs' bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.

A week after the tea at the manse Diana Barry gave a party.

"Small and select," Anne assured Marilla. "Just the girls in our class."

They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself. This presently took the form of "daring."

Daring was the fashionable amusement among the Avonlea small fry just then. It had begun among the boys, but soon spread to the girls, and all the silly things that were done in Avonlea that summer because the doers thereof were "dared" to do them would fill a book by themselves.

First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane. Then Josie Pye dared Jane Andrews to hop on her left leg around the garden without stopping once or putting her right foot to the ground; which Jane Andrews gamely tried to do, but gave out at the third corner and had to confess herself defeated.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who was dared to climb something?
2. Who dared her?
3. Where was she supposed to climb to?
4. What was the tree infested with?
5. Did Ruby like them?
6. Besides the caterpillars, what else was Ruby afraid of?
7. Did she end up climbing the tree?
8. Who was a little nervous watching?
9. What was Jane Andrews dared to do?
10. Was she able to do it?
11. Who had dared her to try?
12. Who threw the party?
13. Was it a large public gathering?
14. Who was invited?
15. Who invented the game of daring?
16. Did the girls eventually try it, too?
17. Did it become popular in the town?
18. How much time had passed between the tea and the party?
19. What is one silly mistake that Anna made?
20. Were there any others?
1. Ruby Gillis
2. Carrie Sloane
3. a certain point in the huge old willow tree
4. fat green caterpillars
5. no
6. her mother, if she should tear her new muslin dress
7. yes
8. Carrie Sloane
9. to hop on her left leg around the garden without stopping once or putting her right foot to the ground
10. no
11. Josie Pye
12. Diana Barry
13. no
14. Just the girls in the class
15. the boys
16. yes
17. yes
18. A week
19. walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie
20. yes