Lyddie Chapters 1-18

In chapter 18, Lyddie reluctantly agrees to let Rachel go to when the Phinneys offer to take care of both Charlie and Rachel. Lyddie also finds out that the family farm has been bought by the Stevenses. However, Lyddie continues to work hard at the factory.

How do these events represent a turning point in the story?

• Lyddie no longer has to weigh concerns for her family against concerns about factory conditions and her own life.

• Lyddie makes a major decision to marry Luke Stevens since his family now owns the farm.

• Lyddie makes a regrettable decision to run away with Rachel for the Phinneys cannot claim her.

• Lyddie decides she will no longer have contact with her own family because she thinks it will be for their own good.

Who will receive the money when Lyddie's farm is sold?

• Lyddie
• Lyddie's mother
• Aunt Clarissa and Uncle Judah
• The Phinneys

Which part is too minor to be included in a summary of chapter 18?

• Lyddie agrees to let Rachel live with the Phinneys.

• Charlie tells Lyddie the farm will be sold.

• Charlie rides the train, and then a stagecoach, to visit Lyddie in Lowell.

• Luke Stevens asks Lyddie to marry him in a letter that Charlie deliver to Lyddie.

Read the following passage about Lyddie packing Rachel's bag in chapter 18.
She packed the bag.  It took less than a minute.  Rachel had so little.  She remembered the primer, and then decided to keep it.  Rachel would have a new one, a better one now...She got her box of writing materials, dipped her pen in ink , and wrote in painful, careful script on the fly leaf: "For Rachel Worthen from her sister Lydia Worthen, June 24, 1846," wiping her face carefully on her apron as she wrote so as not to blot the page.
What is the tone of this passage?

• hopeful
• angry
• sad
• anxious

The novel Lyddie, is closest to which literary genre?

• realistic fiction
• biography
• journalistic fiction
• historical fiction

How does living with Rachel affect Lyddie?

• Lyddie becomes bitter and resentful because she has to take care of Rachel.
• Lyddie becomes angrier and angrier at her mother for sending Rachel to live with her.
• Lyddie becomes friendlier and nicer as a result of Rachel's influence.
• Lyddie becomes overjoyed because she will receive money from the state of Massachusetts to take care of Rachel because she is under the age of 18. 

In Ch 18 Lyddie finds out that who is dead?

• Charlie

• Rachel

• Agnes

• Diana