Mother Jones Quiz

True or False: Mother Jones fought for the rights of only adults who were paid low and worked long hours.

• True

• False

True or False: After most marchers returned home, Mother Jones and three children were the only ones left to keep marching to the Presudent's house.

• True

• False

Mother Jones wanted to bring publicity to her cause but...

• there were no newspapers in the 1900's.

• the newspapers were angry at her and refused her service.

• she could not afford to buy a section in the newspaper.

• the newspapers told her that they were owned by the mill owners.

The defintion of Weary is:

• feeling tired or worn out

• hazardous conditions due to hidden or unpredictable dangers

• When something is extremely tiring and demanding to do

• in a state of being successful

Why did it take the President so many years to finally pass child labor laws?

• His hands were tied and he could not do anything about the issue.

• He owned factories that used child labor to fullfill thier orders.

• He felt that this was an issue for states to solve independently.

• He never even knew that this was an issue.

The journey up the hill was quite ________.

• Prosperity

• Weary

• Publicity

• Treacherous

All of the following are real examples of Mother Jones using the children to influence the opinions and ideas of others, except...

• A young girl limped across the stage with a broken foot in New Jersey.

• She held a young boy's mutilated hand up for a crowd to see.

• A young, malnutritioned boy with a stooped body stood in front of Princeton.

• Children crawled in small empty cages in Coney Island.

Why did both children and their parents deal with the treacherous marching conditions they faced on thier way to see President Theodore Roosevelt?

• Mother Jones forced them go speak with the president about the poor working conditions.

• They wanted to bring attention to their terrible working conditions.

• They wanted to take a vacation from thier jobs.

• They were expecting to find better working conditions and new jobs there.

According to the reading, what happened when Mother Jones tried to meet with President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill?

• The newspapers were at the gates and so they could not make it there.

• The President was waiting for them at the gates.

• The Secret Service turned them away.

• They were meet with counter protesters.

According to our background information slides, all of the following were examples of the poor working conditions that children and adults faced in the 20th century, except...

• Exposed to many different extreme weather elements

• Long and grueling work hours and weeks

• Dangerous machinery that lead to loss of limbs

• Radiation poisoning from nuclear weapon manufacturing