Lyddie Chapters 11-15 Review

“The pay reflected her proficiency.… While the other girls grumbled that their piece rates had dropped so that it had hardly been worth slaving through the summer heat, she kept her silence” (p. 86).   What does this quote show about how Lyddie was paid?  (RL 7.1)

• She was paid well because the overseer liked her.

• She was paid a higher hourly wage because she had worked there longer.

• She was paid by how much cloth she wove

• She was paid less than she had been paid in the tavern.

“So it was that when the Concord Corporation once again speeded up the machinery, she, almost alone, did not complain” (p. 89).  Why did Lyddie not complain about the speed-up?

• More than anything, she wanted to earn enough money to reunite her family and get the farm back.

• She didn’t care what the other girls thought of her.

• She wanted to please Mr. Mardsen.

• She wanted to earn more money, and the corporation raised wages when it sped up the machinery.

 How did the letter from Lyddie's mother in Chapter 12 affect Lyddie?

• She is discouraged and wants to quit.

• She is more motivated to work.

• She shuts down and begins to feel numb.

• She is resentful towards her mother.

How does the speed-up in Chapter 13 affect Lyddie? (Refer to pages 97–99.)

• She is mentally and physically exhausted.

• She is worried about Betsy.

• She eats more to keep up her energy.

• She works harder so Mr. Mardsen can win a prize.

"She wanted not to have to open the letter. She wanted the letter never to have arrived, but there it was, and it had to be faced" (p. 88)  Why did Lyddie NOT want to open the letter she received from her mother?

• She hated her mother and never wanted to talk to her again

• She did not want to have to read her terrible spelling.

• She was worried her mother would ask her to come home.

• She felt guilty for not having sent her mother money.

 How does Betsy reading Oliver Twist out loud impact Lyddie?

• Lyddie decides to give up hope of change in the factories and return to the farm.

• Lyddie is inspired to find Charlie and not leave him as an orphan.

• Lyddie is inspired to read on her own and teaches herself how to read by buying the book for herself.

• Lyddie decides to buy the book and use it as inspiration for promoting the 10-hour movement.

What is the best definition of the word “inelegantly” as used in chapter 11 (p. 82)?

• Gracefully / Tastefully / Ladylike

• Confidently / Bossily / Assertively

• Incorrectly / Wrongly / Mistakenly

• Impolitely / Crudely / Unsophisticated

Which quote is the best context clue to determine the meaning of “laboriously" as tirelessly/determined/earnestly?

• “...exhausted as she was...she lay sweating across her bed mouthing in whispers the sounds of Mr. Dickens’s narrative.”

• “It didn’t occur to her that she was teaching herself…”

• “...the words that had rolled like rainwater off Betsy’s tongue.”

• “There was no one there to make fun of her efforts, or even to try to help.”

How does the symbol of the bear continue to develop in chapter 13 (p. 97)?

• Lyddie considers her boss a bear because of his bad attitude.

• Lyddie encourages herself when the machines overwhelm her by comparing them to the bear in her mind.

• A literal bear enters the factory and wreaks havoc on the girls, the machines, and the entire city of Lowell.

• Lyddie remembers the bear as the reason that her life has turned out the way it has.

What is the TONE of the passage?   “Lyddie could not keep the silly song out of her head. It clacked and whistled along with the machinery. 

Oh! I cannot be a slave, 

I will not be a slave…

     She wasn’t a slave. She was a free woman of the state of Vermont, earning her own way in the world.        

     Whatever Diana, or even Betsy, might think, she, Lyddie, was far less a slave than most any girl she knew of.”

• Persuasive / Convincing / Influential

• Formal / Factual / Stiff

• Uneasy / Uncomfortable / Worried

• Empowered / Confident / Self-Assured