WorksheetsLyddie 1-9
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 26mins
Order of events in the story.
Story Arc
Plot
Narrative
Time and Place where story takes place.
Setting
Exposition
Narrative
any struggle between opposing forces.
Conflict
Mediating
Denotation
Which of these choices is NOT one of the ways Mrs. Bedlow
helped Lyddie?
Mrs. Bedlow helped Lyddie get a job at the mill.
She took Lyddie to the mill on her first day of work.
She took Lyddie shopping for new clothes.
Mrs. Bedlow showed Lyddie kindness and gave her a dollar for new clothes.
Which of these choices is NOT one of the requirements the
girls must meet in order to work for the Concord Corporation?
The girls must attend church regularly.
They must wear proper clothes and shoes.
The girls must be vaccinated for smallpox.
They must attend night classes to learn reading and writing.
Dani is very "conscientious" in regards to her academic studies. The word conscientious means:
impressive
foreboding
imposing
very thorough
“They were rich for all their Quaker adherence to the simple life. Envy crept up like a noxious vine. Laddie snapped it off, but the roots were deep and beyond her reach”
"And it might embarrass Charlie to have his sister clucking over him like an old biddy hen. She couldn't stand the thought of Charlie being mortified by her in front of these people who thought so highly of him.
Using context clues, what does vigorous mean?
What is the best definition of gangly?
What evidence can you draw from this excerpt to show that the woman is harsh?
What does this passage, and Lyddie's use of "servitude" tell us about her mental state.
"He grinned,"I hope to see thee before too much time is up,"he said. "Meantime, i'll see to thy house.' He leaned over the seat. 'I'll give a look in on thy Charlie, too," he said. "He's a good boy." She didn't know whether to be please or annoyed, but he clicked his tongue and the wagon pulled away, leaving her alone in her new life,
"Once I walk in the gate, I ain't free anymore. She thought. No matter how handsome the house, once I enter I'm a servant girl- no more than a black slave. She had been queen of the cabin and the straggly fields and sugar bush up there on the hill."
Based on what you read, what do you think Lyddie feels about her new job?
excited
scared
tense
What is the Author trying to show us?
What does the word veritable mean?
What can you infer about how Lyddie is feeling from the line, "a welcome window to the world beyond the tavern."
"He shook his head. His hair was longer, but neater somehow. A better barber than she had trimmed it, she realized with a pang."
What type of conflict do you think Lyddie faced and why?
By examing the passage, how can you tell this is a man v.s society conflict?
"Lyddie propped it up with the wood. She put her right leg over the sill and scrunched her head down onto her chest to squeeze into the opening."
Which word choice below best describes the word "scrunched"?
Chapter 2: We see Lyddie and Charlie preparing to go to their new masters. Their neighbors are kind to them. What group do the Stevens belong to?
Amish
Mennonites
Quakers
Masons
Ch. 4: As Lyddie does her work at the tavern, she over hears the men say, money can be made by...
selling sugar.
returning a runaway slave.
selling their cabin.
turning in her new calico dress.
Chapter 6: After Mrs. Cutler fires Lyddie, she tries to get her to stay on at the tavern.
True
False
Chapter 7: After Lyddie rescues the carriage from the mud, the driver...
screams at her.
tells her that she's good for nothing.
takes her to his sister's boardinghouse.
makes her pay extra for the ride.
Chapter 8: Mrs. Bedlow insists Lyddie buy new clothes, because...
she wants Lyddie to spend all her money.
Lyddie doesn't have enough clothes.
the factory expects the girls to dress nicely.
she doesn't want Lyddie's roommates to judge her.
Chapter 9: Who is Lyddie's mentor in the weaving room?
Amelia
Mr. Marsden
Betsy
Diana
The setting in chapter 9 of Lyddie
Lyddie's boarding room
Mrs. Bedlow's office
Cutler's Tavern
the weaving room
According to the text, "Lyddie was a farm girl. She took pride in her strength, but it took all her might to yank the metal lever into place."
This shows that work at the factory was easy for Lyddie because farm life prepared her.
This shows that farm work was easy for Lyddie since it gave her strength.
This shows that factory work proved harder to Lyddie than her work at the farm.
Diana Goss proves she is a friend to Lyddie because
she trains her at the factory.
she listens to Lyddie.
she encourages Lyddie to write letters to her Mom and Charlie.
all of the above
What does the word "beholden" mean?
Owing thanks to someone/ in someone's debt
Scared/afraid of someone or something
to be married to someone
to be lonely
Which quote best demonstrates Lyddie's reluctance to be "beholden"?
“Creation! What a noise! Clatter and clack, great shuddering moans, groans, creaks, and rattles. The shrieks and whistles of huge leather belts on wheels. And when her brain cleared enough, Lyddie saw through the murky air row upon row of machines, eerily like the old hand loom in Quaker Stevens’s house, but as unlike as a nightmare, for these creatures had come to life” (62)
“So it was that when the Concord Corporation once again speeded up the machinery, she, almost alone, did not complain” (89).
“Luke Stevens tied the horse and cow to the back of the wagon and then came around to give Lyddie a hand up, but she pretended not to see. She couldn’t have the man thinking she was a child or a helpless female” (15).
“Sometimes I’d sell my soul for a moment of quiet, wouldn’t you?” (69
If someone is a "radical", they are:
Someone with a really loud voice who talks too much.
A rebel - someone working for a change.
Someone who is really good a skateboarding.
Someone who is hard working and makes a lot of money.
What is the name of the machine that Lyddie works on?
The T-Shirt maker 5000
Thimble
Loom
Harry
