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- 1. Multiple Choice
IRONY: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is the irony of chapter seven's title, "South to Freedom"?
The north is associated with freedom.
The south was closer to the north in freedom.
The south represents the freedom of the people.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why did Lyddie not allow Triphena to persuade her to wait?
Lyddie was too eager to begin her journey and didn't want to miss the stagecoach.
Lyddie wanted to get on the road before it was too late in the evening.
Lyddie didn't want to take the risk of allowing the mistress to talk her into staying.
- 3. Multiple Choice
How is Lyddie's encounter with Ezekial, a runaway slave, a turning point in her character development?
Lyddie sees the parallel in her own quest for freedom and Ezekial's.
Lyddie decides that she will never own a slave.
Lyddie was once selfish in her endeavors, now she puts others before herself.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why does Lyddie take control of the situation when the stage coach got stuck?
She could bare the stuffy, smelly, carriage no longer, and needed fresh air.
The passengers thought less of her because of the way she was dressed, and that would show them that she was just as good.
After trying to restrain from helping the men, she finally grew tired of their incompetence.
- 5. Multiple Choice
How does the stagecoach driver help Lyddie?
He tells her that she will not have to pay him for the ride.
He took Lyddie to the nearest inn and gave her something to keep warm.
He took Lyddie to his sister's boarding house.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Next, Triphena made her wait while she packed her a parcel of food large enough to feed a table of harvesters. Parcel means
package
group
a lot
- 7. Multiple Choice
Then, just at dusk, the sky opened, and it began to rain--not light spring showers, but cold, soaking torrents of rain, streaming down her face, icicling rivulets down her chest and legs. Torrents and rivulets mean...
floods, stream of water
blasts, rings of water
storms, dried
- 8. Multiple Choice
What does Lyddie think of the other passengers in the stage coach?
Lyddie thinks the passengers are rude and selfish.
Lyddie thinks the passengers are critical and mortified.
Lyddie thinks the passengers are judgmental and ignorant.
Lyddie thinks the passengers are rude and selfish.
Lyddie thinks the passengers are critical and mortified.
Lyddie thinks the passengers are judgmental and ignorant.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of these choices is NOT one of the ways Mrs. Bedlow
helped Lyddie?
Mrs. Bedlow helped Lyddie get a job at the mill.
She took Lyddie to the mill on her first day of work.
She took Lyddie shopping for new clothes.
Mrs. Bedlow showed Lyddie kindness and gave her a dollar for new clothes.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of these choices is NOT one of the requirements the
girls must meet in order to work for the Concord Corporation?
The girls must attend church regularly.
They must wear proper clothes and shoes.
The girls must be vaccinated for smallpox.
They must attend night classes to learn reading and writing.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of Lyddie’s new friends enjoyed reading novels?
Betsy
Amelia
Diana
Prudence
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes the Mrs. Bedlow's boarding house?
Small and cramped
Calm and quiet
Noisy and busy
Empty and gloomy
- 13. Multiple Choice
Lyddie's new boarding house is number
5
7
10
1
- 14. Multiple Choice
Lyddie is going to work at the factory called the
The Factory de Lowell
Corporation of Concord
Concord Corporation
Massachusetts Mills
- 15. Multiple Choice
Lyddie gets a contract to work for
until she quits
until she gets fired
two years
one year
- 16. Multiple Choice
Upon entering the factory for the first day of work, what does Lyddie notice most?
The noise of the factory
The smell of the factory
How the ladies stare at her in a rude way
There are much less people than she expected to be there
- 17. Multiple Choice
Lyddie is worried about the contract because...
She is used to life on the farm, not life in the factory.
She is worried that if she signs the contract, she will be stuck there forever.
She thinks she will not be able to keep up with the factory life.
She knows she can't read well, so she won't understand the rules.
- 18. Multiple Choice
Upon entering the boarding house, Lyddie is amazed at the...
kettle
microwave
stove
sink
- 19. Multiple Choice
Lyddie meets all of the following girls at the boarding house except
Betsy
Amelia
Prudence
Felicia
- 20. Multiple Choice
How many hours does Lyddie work at the factory each day? p. 91
8 hours
10 hours
13 hours
24 hours
- 21. Multiple Choice
What metaphor does Lyddie use to describe the dust and lint in the air? p. 63
She compares the air to a tornado.
She compares the air to a waterfall.
She says the air is dark.
She compares the air to a soup.
- 22. Multiple Choice
What story did Betsy read to Lyddie after her first full day at the factory? p. 78
Little Red Riding Hood
Oliver Twist
The Lion King
Grimms Fairy Tales
- 23. Multiple Choice
Lyddie was "ravenous" for every word in the story. What does ravenous mean? p. 78
hungry
tired
angry
intelligent
- 24. Multiple Choice
How was Lyddie's first day of work at the factory?
Fun and exciting
Painful and tiring
Boring and dull
Relaxing and calm
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following best describes the Mrs. Bedlow's boarding house?Noisy and busySmall and crampedCalm and quietEmpty and gloomy
- 26. Multiple Choice
The text says: “Now that she thought of it, she could hardly breathe, the air was so laden with moisture and debris” (75). What does laden mean?
Filled with
Weighed Down
Heavy
All of the above
- 27. Multiple Choice
The text says: “Now that she thought of it, she could hardly breathe, the air was so laden with moisture and debris” (75). How do you know what the word Laden means?
The quote says that Lyddie couldn't really breathe because the air was filled with humidity and dust.
The quote says that Lyddie couldn't really breathe because it was hot and the space was tight.
The quote said that Lyddie wasn't having difficulty breathing because she is use to the farm air.
The quote said that Lyddie was having difficulty breathing because she was use to the farm air.
- 28. Multiple Choice
What wouldn't it feel like to breathe air “laden with moisture and debris”?
It would feel like you are suffocating.
It would feel like you are choking and need water.
It would feel like breathing fresh air.
It would feel like your lungs are collapsing.
- 29. Multiple Choice
The text says: “Now that she thought of it, she could hardly breathe, the air was so laden with moisture and debris” (75). Which Working Conditions note card best explains what this quote helps the reader understand about Lyddie’s life and work?
The air in the factory was humid and dusty.
The looms were powerful and could injure workers if they weren’t careful.
Workers lived and ate in crowded, noisy boardinghouses.
All of the above.
- 30. Multiple Choice
The text says: “Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine” (75). What does the phrase bowels of the machine mean?
The internal organs of people
The inside of the humid and dusty weaving room
The outside of the machine
The insides of the looms
- 31. Multiple Choice
What does personification mean?
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
Giving a non-living object traits of a human or animal.
An extreme exaggeration.
A phrase that has different meanings than what it says.
- 32. Multiple Choice
The text says: “Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine” (75). What is being personified?
The weaving room.
Lyddie's hands.
The factory.
The loom.
- 33. Multiple Choice
The text says: “Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine” (75). Which Working Conditions note card best explains what this quote helps the reader understand about Lyddie’s life and work?
The air in the factory was humid and dusty.
The looms were powerful and could injure workers if they weren’t careful.
Workers lived and ate in crowded, noisy boardinghouses.
Workers got paid little for all the work they did.
- 34. Multiple Choice
“Her quiet meals in the corner of the kitchen with Triphena, even her meager bowls of bark soup with the seldom talkative Charlie, seemed like feasts compared to the huge, rushed, noisy affairs in Mrs. Bedlow’s house” (76). It’s contradictory to suggest a meager meal could be a feast. How could this be true for Lyddie?
Lyddie is so hungry, she could eat a horse.
She misses Charlie and Triphena dreadfully.
Lyddie rather have a little bit of food in the peace and quiet with people she love than a lot of food in the noise.
Lyddie rather have a lot of food at the boardinghouse than starve to death with Charlie and Triphena.
- 35. Multiple Choice
“Her quiet meals in the corner of the kitchen with Triphena, even her meager bowls of bark soup with the seldom talkative Charlie, seemed like feasts compared to the huge, rushed, noisy affairs in Mrs. Bedlow’s house” (76). Which Working Conditions note card best explains what this quote helps the reader understand about Lyddie’s life and work?
The air in the factory was humid and dusty.
The looms were powerful and could injure workers if they weren’t careful.
Workers lived and ate in crowded, noisy boardinghouses.
Workers get paid little for all the work they do.
- 36. Multiple Choice
Why is Diana Goss known as a radical and call herself infamous?
Diana is known as a radical because she advocates for worker's rights and called herself infamous because she is popular for doing something a lot of the girls would never do.
Diana is known as a radical because she advocates for worker's rights and called herself infamous because she is bad and guilty of being mean to the other girls.
Diana is known as a radical because she advocates for worker's rights and called herself infamous because she is really famous around the factory.
Diana is known as a radical because she advocates for worker's rights and called herself infamous because no one likes her or agrees that they should fight for their rights as workers.
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