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WorksheetsLyddie Review Chapters 1-8
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
What conflict arises at the end of chapter 1?
Charlie loses the baby calf
Mama gets sick and has to go to the hospital
Lyddie and Charlie are told they have to work to pay off the farm debts
Lyddie and Charlie's father returns
Which of the following is NOT one way the Stevens family helps Lyddie and Charlie?
They invite them for dinner
Mr. Stevens gives them a horse and a pig
Mr. Stevens gives them a good price for the calf
Luke Stevens gives them a ride to their new workplaces
In chapter 6,when Lyddie meets Ezekial Abernathy, she struggles with which internal conflict (a conflict the character experience with themselves)?
Whether to stay at her cabin through the winter or travel back to Cutler's Tavern
Whether to turn him in for reward money or help keep him hidden
What is the setting of chapter 8?
Cutler's Tavern
Lyddie's mountain farm in Vermont
Boston, Massachusetts
The Concord Corporation in Lowell
What do Lyddie and Charlie plan to do with the calf money?
Split the money between the two of them and take it with them to their different jobs.
Give it to Mama, because she demands it.
Let Quaker Stevens have it in return for all his help.
Bury it so they can come back to the farm one day and start over.
In chapter 3, Mistress Cutler mistakes Lyddie for a beggar when she first sees Lyddie.
True
False
How is Lyddie's encounter with Ezekial, a runaway slave, a turning point in her character development?
Lyddie sees the parallel in her own quest for freedom and Ezekial's.
Lyddie decides that she will never own a slave.
Lyddie was once selfish in her endeavors, and now she puts others before herself.
Why does Lyddie take control of the situation when the stage coach got stuck?
She could bare the stuffy, smelly, carriage no longer, and needed fresh air.
The passengers thought less of her because of the way she was dressed, and that would show them that she was just as good.
After trying to restrain from helping the men, she finally grew tired of their incompetence.
How does the stagecoach driver help Lyddie?
He tells her that she will not have to pay him for the ride.
He takes Lyddie to the nearest inn and gives her something to keep warm.
He takes Lyddie to his sister's boarding house.
How does Lyddie say she makes up for her "plain looks?"
by wearing a lot of makeup
by being a fierce worker
by wearing fancy clothes
by being funny
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
