Newsies

What is the most important thing that you learn in Scene 7

• Hearst has a car

• The war increased Hearst's costs.

• The newsies' strike is working": it's affecting the newspaper owners' business

• The newsies used to pay one cent for two newspapers

Fill in the blank with the vocabulary word that best fits the sentence.

The______________ of the newspapers decreased when the newsies went on strike.

Fill in the blank with the vocabulary word that best fits the sentence. If the grocery store doesn't start paying their cashiers a fair wage, the workers might go on_____________ in protest.

Who are the “newsies” in the play?

• kids who sell newspapers

• men who own newspaper companies

• drivers who deliver newspapers

• managers who hand out newspapers

Which words best describe the newsies at the beginning of the play?

• thoughtless and unfair

• important and powerful

• educated and successful

• poor and often homeless

Why do the newsies go on strike?

• to sell more papers

• to fight unfair costs

• to find more workers

• to charge more for papers

Which line from the play best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• “People don’t care when the big news is a cat up a tree.”

• “Rose and Boots enter a room packed with newsies.”

• “We’ll force the newspaper owners to lower our price back to 50 cents.”

• “They throw papers over the side of the bridge.”

At the end of the play, what does William Randolph Hearst tell the newsies he’ll do?

• send them all back to school

• lower the cost of newspapers

• buy back papers they don’t sell

• give their jobs to someone else

What does the Epilogue tell about?

• why newsies needed jobs

• what happened after the strike

• life before TV and cell phones

• how people used to sell papers

What is the main theme of the musical 'Newsies'?

• A) The power of friendship

• B) The struggle for workers' rights

• C) The importance of education

• D) The impact of technology