Lyddie chapters 14-23

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..."

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

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.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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

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

• 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 sell the farm will make it very difficult, or impossible, to reclaim 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.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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...

• setting affecting characters
• characters affecting characters
• setting affecting the plot
• plot affecting the setting

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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
• she always obeys the rules
• she is confused and angry
• she is cold and uncaring

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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 painful it can be to have a tooth pulled
• how banks often cause people distress
• how unsettling it is for Lyddie to remove money she's saved from the bank
• how Lyddie does understand how the banking system in Lowell work

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

"Lyddie resolved not to glance his way, but she could see without looking the little rosebud mouth fixed in its prissy bow."
The word resolved, in this sentence, means...

• found a solution
• separated
• made a firm decision
• discovered a purpose

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

What has Lyddie found out about her mother?

• 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.
• Lyddie's mother has been committed to an asylum.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

"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.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6