Labor Day Quiz

What is the best alternate headline for this Article?

• A End-of-Summer Holiday Celebrates the Fight for Workers' Rights

• B Industrial Revolution Marches On as Workers Toil in Factories and Mines

• Americans Say Goodbye to Summer with Beach Parties and Cookouts

• DD Labor Unions Strike to Demand Better Wages for Industrial Workers

Which is the closest synonym for the word deleterious?

• repugnant

• adverse

• inane

• boisterous

Which question is not answered by the Article?

• How did the New York City workers' parade in September of 1882 impact the labor movement?

• How many hours a day did many Americans spend working during the Industrial Revolution?

• When did Congress officially declare the first Monday in September to be a federal holiday?

• When were the labor laws passed to establish fair wages and protect workers' safety?

According to the Article, which of these happened before the workers' parade in 1882?

• Congressional leaders declared that Labor Day would be celebrated on the first Monday every September.

• Labor laws were passed that established fair wages and limited the hours that people were required to work.

• The labor movement began as labor unions organized groups of workers with the shared goal of protecting workers' rights.

• The idea of a federal holiday to honor workers picked up steam and spread throughout cities across the U.S.

According to the Article, why was the Labor Day holiday declared to be the first Monday in September?

• Many Americans joined labor unions every September to organize strikes and rallies, demanding better wages and safer workplaces.

• Many Americans worked in factories, mills, and mines for 12 hours a day or more without days off and in dangerous conditions.

• Congressional leaders wanted to commemorate the day in September of 1882 when thousands of workers marched for workers' rights.

• Congressional leaders wanted to provide American workers with an end-of-summer celebration by closing most schools and offices.

Read this passage from the Article: The movement took a big step forward on September 5, 1882, when about 10,000 people from bricklayers to blacksmiths, from shoemakers and jewelers to printers and railroad workers-did not go to work and instead joined together for a parade in New York City. They marched in solidarity, foregoing their day's wages to call attention to the importance of workers and workers' rights. Which is the closest antonym for the word solidarity?

• collaboration

• discordance

• forbearance

• profusion

Which of these is a statement of opinion?

• People should honor the labor movement's work by holding parades and rallies every Labor Day.

• Labor Day commemorates an 1882 workers' rights parade in which thousands of workers marched in New York City.

• Labor Day was made a federal holiday in 1894 and has been celebrated every year since then on the first Monday in September.

• People often worked in workspaces with inadequate ventilation during the Industrial Revolution.

This Article would be most useful as a source for a student research project on

• unsafe working conditions in the modern workplace

• end-of-summer holidays and celebrations throughout the world

• the history of the labor movement in the United States

• the work of the labor movement in the United States today.