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Lyddie Review Chapters 1-8

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the setting at the very beginning of the story?
a)
A mountain farm in Vermont
b)
The Lowell mills
c)
Baker's Mill
d)
Mrs. Bedlow's boarding house 
2.

What conflict arises at the end of chapter 1?

a)

Charlie loses the baby calf

b)

Mama gets sick and has to go to the hospital

c)

Lyddie and Charlie are told they have to work to pay off the farm debts

d)

Lyddie and Charlie's father returns

3.

Which of the following is NOT one way the Stevens family helps Lyddie and Charlie?

a)

They invite them for dinner

b)

Mr. Stevens gives them a horse and a pig

c)

Mr. Stevens gives them a good price for the calf

d)

Luke Stevens gives them a ride to their new workplaces

4.
Luke Stevens offers to help Lyddie into the wagon and to look after the farm while she's gone. Lyddie declines both of these offers. What does that show you about her character?
a)
She is weak
b)
She is stubborn and does not like to accept help
c)
She is intelligent
d)
She is respectful
5.
How does Lyddie feel when she arrives at Cutler's Tavern and meets Mistress Cutler for the first time?
a)
Excited
b)
Calm and relaxed
c)
Confident
d)
Self-conscious 
6.
In chapter 4, Triphena tells Lyddie a story about the frog in the butter churn. The frog kicks the cream until it becomes solid butter, and he makes it out by rising to the top. Which character trait does Lyddie share with the frog?
a)
Determined
b)
Lazy
c)
Grumpy
d)
Weak
7.

In chapter 6,when Lyddie meets Ezekial Abernathy, she struggles with which internal conflict (a conflict the character experience with themselves)?

a)

Whether to stay at her cabin through the winter or travel back to Cutler's Tavern

b)

Whether to turn him in for reward money or help keep him hidden

8.

What is the setting of chapter 8?

a)

Cutler's Tavern

b)

Lyddie's mountain farm in Vermont

c)

Boston, Massachusetts

d)

The Concord Corporation in Lowell

9.
Why does the stagecoach driver call Lyddie "a little chip of Vermont granite"?
a)
Lyddie is small and delicate
b)
Lyddie is hard-headed like a rock
c)
Lyddie is traveling to Vermont
d)
Lyddie is from Vermont and she is tough like a rock
10.
Which of the following best describes the Mrs. Bedlow's boarding house?
a)
Noisy and busy
b)
Small and cramped
c)
Calm and quiet
d)
Empty and gloomy
11.

What do Lyddie and Charlie plan to do with the calf money?

a)

Split the money between the two of them and take it with them to their different jobs.

b)

Give it to Mama, because she demands it.

c)

Let Quaker Stevens have it in return for all his help.

d)

Bury it so they can come back to the farm one day and start over.

12.

In chapter 3, Mistress Cutler mistakes Lyddie for a beggar when she first sees Lyddie.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

How is Lyddie's encounter with Ezekial, a runaway slave, a turning point in her character development?

a)

Lyddie sees the parallel in her own quest for freedom and Ezekial's.

b)

Lyddie decides that she will never own a slave.

c)

Lyddie was once selfish in her endeavors, and now she puts others before herself.

14.

Why does Lyddie take control of the situation when the stage coach got stuck?

a)

She could bare the stuffy, smelly, carriage no longer, and needed fresh air.

b)

The passengers thought less of her because of the way she was dressed, and that would show them that she was just as good.

c)

After trying to restrain from helping the men, she finally grew tired of their incompetence.

15.

How does the stagecoach driver help Lyddie?

a)

He tells her that she will not have to pay him for the ride.

b)

He takes Lyddie to the nearest inn and gives her something to keep warm.

c)

He takes Lyddie to his sister's boarding house.

16.

How does Lyddie say she makes up for her "plain looks?"

a)

by wearing a lot of makeup

b)

by being a fierce worker

c)

by wearing fancy clothes

d)

by being funny

17.

Which quote best demonstrates Lyddie's reluctance to be "beholden"?

a)

“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)

b)

“So it was that when the Concord Corporation once again speeded up the machinery, she, almost alone, did not complain” (89).

c)

“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).

d)

“Sometimes I’d sell my soul for a moment of quiet, wouldn’t you?” (69