How do Uncle Judah's plans for Lyddie's farm affect the plot of the story?

Judah's plans to sell the farm will make it very difficult, or impossible, to reclaim the farm.

Judah's plans to pay off the farm will make it possible for Lyddie and her family to reunite.

Judah's plans to continue renting the farm to others will postpone Lyddie's return to the farm.

Judah's plans to tear down Lyddie's cabin to build a windmill will leave Lyddie and her family without a home to return to.

Clarissa and Judah's decision to return Rachel to Lyddie even though it will be difficult for Lyddie to take care of her is mostly and example of...

characters affecting characters

Read the following passage about Rachel coming to live with Lyddie at the boarding house. "Mrs. Bedlow looked doubtful, but she didn't say no. She just sighed and started to peel again..." What does this passage reveal about Mrs. Bedlow's personality?

she is tolerant and sympathetic

Read the following sentence about Lyddie from chapter 16. "Taking money from the bank was like having a rooted tooth yanked from the jaw." The author is using a simile to illustrate...

how unsettling it is for Lyddie to remove money she's saved from the bank

how painful it can be to have a tooth pulled

how banks often cause people distress

how Lyddie does understand how the banking system in Lowell work

What has Lyddie found out about her mother?

Lyddie's mother has been committed to an asylum.

Lyddie's mother has been sent to prison for her debts.

Lyddie's mother is going to have another baby.

Lyddie's mother is going to get remarried to a man she met at Aunt Clarissa and Uncle Judah's.

"She'll never come back, Lyddie thought sadly as she watched the buggy disappear around the corner...She'll never be strong enough again to work in a mill thirteen, fourteen hours a day. When I'm ready to go, she thought, maybe I could sign that cussed petition. Not for me. I don't need it, but for Betsy and the others. It ain't right for this place to suck the strength from their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind." Why does Lyddie think that Betsy has been "cast off like dry husks to the wind"?

Lyddie knows that since Betsy is no longer strong enough to work for the factory, she is being considered not useful and being sent unfairly away.

Lyddie knows that Betsy has been freed from the factory to do what she chooses.

Lyddie knows that Betsy is rightly being sent away to make room for a healthier, stronger worker.

Lyddie knows that Betsy is being sent to work on a farm.

What does Lyddie do for Brigid in chapter 16?

Lyddie pays a doctor bill for Brigid.

Lyddie teaches Brigid to work five looms at once.

Lyddie takes the blame for a mistake Brigid made at the mill.

Lyddie gives Brigid her dinner because Brigid does not have the money to buy food.

Lyddie Chapters 13-16

Authored by Kristina Orlando

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6th Grade - University

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How does the factory speed-up in Chapter 13 affect Lyddie?

She is mentally and physically exhausted.

She is worried abut Betsy.

She eats more to keep up her energy.

She works harder so Mr. Marsden can win a prize.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which piece of textual evidence supports that Lyddie is mentally and physically exhausted?

"She ate the food set before her."

"She did not want Betsy to go."

"She was too tired at night now to copy out a page of Oliver to paste to her loom."

"The harder we work, the bigger prize they get."

Tags

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RF.3.4C

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"She wanted to explain to them--to justify herself." What does the word justify mean?

to administer justice to someone

to prove or show to be right

to adjust or arrange exactly

to laugh at oneself

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which sentence from the novel supports the idea that Lyddie is just as ambitious and motivated to work after her accident with the loom shuttle as she was before the accident?

"I-I've come to hate factory life. Oh Betsy, I hate what it's doing to me."

"She thought about her family-suppose that cussed shuttle had killed her or out out her eye?"

"Dr.Craven had cut her hair away from the wound and bound her head in a proper bandage, but she took it off. She was going back to work the next day."

"I've been through winter before,' said Amelia. 'It's not the season.' She sighed again more deeply than before. 'I'm tired, Betsy. I can't keep up the pace.' 'Who can?' Except our Amazonian Lyddie?' Betsy's laugh turned abruptly into a cough.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which passage from chapter 14 illustrates Lyddie's frustration while training Brigid, the new girl in the factory?

"With her scissors, she cut two threads from a bobbin and, taking the girl to the window where the light was best, Lyddie wasted at least five precious minutes tying and retying the useless knot until, finally, the girl was able, however clumsily, to tie a lumpy knot."

"The new girl, Brigid, was from the Acre- an Irish papist through and through, wearing layers of strange capes and smelling even worse than Lyddie herself."

"As for tying knots, a basic weaver's knot, Brigid simply couldn't do them."

"Lyddie demonstrated--her powdered fingers pinching, looping, slipping, pulling..."

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.4C

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RF.2.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why does Betsy leave the mill in chapter 14?

Betsy was fired and blacklisted for signing the labor petition.

Betsy is forced to leave because of her poor health.

Betsy met a man and is going to get married.

Betsy and Amelia can no longer get along with each other.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What does Luke bring to Lyddie in chapter 14?

a Bible

a new dress

a letter and money from Ezekial

a letter from Lyddie's mother

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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Lyddie Chapters 13-16

How does the factory speed-up in Chapter 13 affect Lyddie?

Which piece of textual evidence supports that Lyddie is mentally and physically exhausted?

"She wanted to explain to them--to justify herself." What does the word justify mean?

Which sentence from the novel supports the idea that Lyddie is just as ambitious and motivated to work after her accident with the loom shuttle as she was before the accident?

Which passage from chapter 14 illustrates Lyddie's frustration while training Brigid, the new girl in the factory?

Why does Betsy leave the mill in chapter 14?

What does Luke bring to Lyddie in chapter 14?

How do Uncle Judah's plans for Lyddie's farm affect the plot of the story?

Clarissa and Judah's decision to return Rachel to Lyddie even though it will be difficult for Lyddie to take care of her is mostly and example of...

Read the following passage about Rachel coming to live with Lyddie at the boarding house."Mrs. Bedlow looked doubtful, but she didn't say no. She just sighed and started to peel again..."What does this passage reveal about Mrs. Bedlow's personality?

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What does this passage reveal about Mrs. Bedlow's personality?