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- 1. 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
- 2. 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.
- 3. 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
- 4. 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.
- 5. 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.
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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.
- 8. 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.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Reread this excerpt: "She fought sleep, ravenous for every word. She had not had any appetite for the bountiful meal downstairs, but now she was feeling a hunger she knew nothing about. She had to know what would happen to little Oliver."
Which character is reading to Lyddie in this excerpt?
Amelia
Betsy
Diana
Mr. Marsden
- 10. Multiple Choice
Reread this excerpt: "She fought sleep, ravenous for every word. She had not had any appetite for the bountiful meal downstairs, but now she was feeling a hunger she knew nothing about. She had to know what would happen to little Oliver."
What is the setting of this excerpt?
The boardinghouse, in the bedroom
The boardinghouse, in the dining room
The factory
In the park
- 11. Open Ended
Reread this excerpt: "She fought sleep, ravenous for every word. She had not had any appetite for the bountiful meal downstairs, but now she was feeling a hunger she knew nothing about. She had to know what would happen to little Oliver."
Make in inference. Why is Lyddie so interested in the story of Oliver?
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