Lyddie Test Ch 1-6 Review

After we finish Ch 6, there will be a test on Ch 1-6.  It will have 10 multiple-choice questions and one or two short response questions.  Short response questions must have all parts of ACE/CEA/RACE/RACER.

Review for Assessment

Part I: Vocabulary: focus on the meaning of the underlined word within the context of the text provided.

1. “He should know she was not going to be beholden to the neighbors for anything so trivial as her own comfort” (7). 

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2. “‘She didn’t say nothing about the calf,’ Lyddie said suddenly in the midst of their sorrowful packing up” (10).

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3. “He turned in the immense doorway-...” (17)

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4. “She spoke rarely, but she listened intently...” (24)

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5. “The mistress was too mean to invest in a tinderbox, but she was mortified to be thought a careless housewife who let her kitchen fire die, so she put Lyddie in charge of it” (27). 

“She couldn’t stand the thought of Charlie being mortified by her in front of these people who thought so highly of him” (37).

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6. “--’a little reading is an exceedingly dangerous thing’” (41)

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Part II: Reading Comprehension with interaction between setting, character, and plot

1. In the first chapter, Lyddie’s actions toward the trespassing bear reveals what character trait(s)?

2. After reading the letter from their mother (page 9), what or who was Lyddie most concerned about? 

3. How might you describe the relationship between the Stevens family and Worthen family? 
1.  How does Mama feel about the Stevens family?  ___________________________
2. How does Charlie and Lyddie Worthen feel?  ___________________________
3. How are the Stevens’s toward the Worthens?  ___________________________

4. How did Lyddie feel after her visit to the mill to look for Charlie? (pages 36-37)

5. Lyddie gave money to Ezekial and then was “leaden with sadness” (43).  Why did giving the money to him cause a sadness?

6. How does Mistress Cutler feel about about Lyddie? (pages 20-24)

7. When Lyddie is fired, she feels “lighthearted” (44).  Why does she feel that way?

8. What is Triphena’s frog story about? 
1.  What does it show about how Triphena sees Lyddie (chapter 4)?

2. How should Lyddie feel about the story? (is it something to discourage her? Make her proud?...)

1. Ezekial suggests that Lyddie is also a slave (chapter 6).  In what ways does he show this is true?