Thursday Quiz

After Lyddie got hit by the shuttle, she ...

• died

• went home

• went on strike

• rested in bed

What is wrong with Betsy?

• She is coughing up blood.

• She has diabetes.

• She hates training new girls.

• She gets fired.

What is the most accurate description of how Lyddie feels about training the new girl - Brigid?

• Lyddie loves the challenge.

• Lyddie is annoyed because it slows her work down.

• Lyddie is patient.

• Lyddie just stands back and watches.

Betsy gets so sick that she ...

• dies.

• has to leave the corporation and rest.

Lyddie is surprised by a visit by who?

• Her mother.

• Her father.

• Luke Stevens.

• Charlie.

Lyddie gets a nice letter and repayment of a loan from who?

• Triphena

• Mr. Stevens

• Mother

• Ezekial Freeman

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."

"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

"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

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.