Lyddie Flash Cards
(chapter 1) How many siblings does Lyddie have, and their names and ages
Agnes: 4yrs
Rachel: 6yrs
Charlie: 10yrs
(chapter 1) What went in Lyddies house, why was it there
A bear walked in Lyddies house, it smelled the oatmeal Lyddie was cooking
(chapter 1) What did Lyddie tell the Family to go and how did she and Charlie get rid of the bear
- Lyddie told everyone to go to the loft.
- Charlie and Lyddie whacked the bear with the ladder
- The bear would get mad
- Lyddie would stare down the bear
(chapter 1) Why did the bear leave the house?
What was the condition of the house?
-The bear left cause when it found the oatmeal it landed in its head and left
-the bear made a mess of the house
(chapter 1) Is Rachel’s father present? Why?
- No
- He went to find vain riches
(chapter 1) What did Lyddie barrow from the Quakers that would help them through out the spring?
- She would use their bull to make baby cows with their cow.
(chapter 1) Who where the Stevens?
- They where their Quaker neighbors.
(chapter 1) How was Lyddies and her mom’s reading and writing abilities
- very poor
(chapter 1) In a letter from her mom where was Lyddie and Charlie going? What happened to there horse and cow and field?
- Lyddie was to work for M. Cutler
- Charlie was to work at the Banks Mill
- The horse, cow, and field were sold to M. Wescott to repay debts.
(chapter 2) What was Lyddies and Charlie’s plan with the calf they have?
What was there main motive?
-They would sell calf and bury the money so they have something to start over with?
-This was all for papa
(chapter 2) What is Lyddies father’s history?
- Seventh son of a poor Connecticut Vally Farmer
- He built their house by hand
- he couldn’t make any good crops
- he borrowed money a lot
(chapter 2) Who did Lyddie sell the calf to? Why? What was wrong with this transaction?
- she sold the calf to the Stevens
- they were rich
- The cow was partly Lyddies and partly the Stevens
(chapter 2) Was Lyddie in school?
- no
(chapter 2) Where would Lyddie first work at?
- Cutlers Tavern
(chapter 3) What was The Cutlers Tavern compared to?
Was it Bigger or smaller?
- It was compared to the Stevens house.
- It was bigger then the Stevens house
(chapter 3) Back in those days what would poor people do with their children?
- They would send their children to work so they could avoid feeding them.
(chapter 3) Who is Triphena?
- she was the Tavern cook
(chapter 3) How did Lyddie learn about the Factory life? What did she learn? Did she believe this news or no?
- A woman in the Tavern told her
- the woman told her the factory girls earn $2 an hour and are independent
- Lyddie doesn’t believe her
(chapter 4) How did Triphena and Lyddie become friends?
-Triphena saw how Lyddie would work hard.
(chapter 4) In the tavern during the winter who came to visit? What did they talk about?
- Charlie came to visit because work was slow in the winter.
- They talked about each other work experiences.
(chapter 4) Who where Otis and Enoch? What did Lyddie learn from these two?
- They were hired men in the tavern
- Lyddie would learn about life outside the Tavern
- she would learn the runaway slaves where worth $100
(chapter 4) at this point of the book, what had Lyddie never seen before?
- she had never seen a black man before
(chapter 5) When Triphina and Lyddie were talking about places to go, where did Lyddie want to go? What let her go there? For what reason?
- Lyddie wanted to go home
- Triphina let her go because the mistress was gone in Boston.
(chapter 5) When Lyddie went back to her house from the Tavern what did she find by the fire place?
- she found a black man there
(chapter 6) What was the black mans name?
- Ezekial Abernathy
(chapter 6) How did Ezekial know Lyddie’s name when they first met?
- The Stevens told him
(chapter 6) Where did Ezekial learn how to speak so well? Why?
- he taught himself how to read the Bible
- so he could preach to his people
(chapter 6) After talking about their lives does Lyddies want to turn in Ezikial?
- no
(chapter 6) What did Lyddie give to Eziakial before she left?
- She gave him the calf money
(chapter 6) When she got back to the Tavern from her talk with Ezikial who was mad at her? Why didn’t Lyddie Care?
- Mistress Culters was mad at her
- She didn’t care because she knew she was going to be a factory girl.
(chapter 6) how was Lyddie going to get to Massachusetts? Why?
- She was going to walk their
- she was inspired to walk there because of Ezikial
(chapter 7) What did triphena giver her for her trip to Massachusetts?
- she gave her second best pair of boots
- some food and money
(chapter 7) Why did Lyddie have to stop walking to Massachusetts? Where did she go?
- She stopped walking because it was raining very hard
- She stayed at an inn
(chapter 7) What did the mistress at the inn tell her?
- She told her that Lyddie could work for her until the coach came at the end of the week.
(chapter 7) Where would Lyddie go on the stage coach?
- She would go to Lowell
(chapter 7) Who where the 2 groups of people that came on and off the coach?
- There was a married couple
- Then a groups on six people would hop on
(chapter 7) On her way to Lowell, what happened to the stagecoach? Wha did Lyddie do about the situation?
- It got stuck.
- She ordered the guys to push the stage coach to get it unstuck.
(chapter 7) After getting the stage coach unstuck what the coachmen tell Lyddie?
- He told Lyddie that he would offer a spot at his sister’s boarding house, Number 5 of the Concord Manufacturing Corporation.
(chapter 8) What did Mrs.Bedlow tell Lydie would be judged on by the factory?
- she told her that she would be judged by her clothes
(chapter 8) what was Lyddie’s main reason of working in the factories?
-She was working to pay off the debts of the farm
(chapter 8) When Lyddie met the factory girls what did they do with her?
- they took her shopping to buy new clothes
(chapter 8) When she was assigned a room, who where room mates?
- Betsy
- Amelia
- Prudence
(chapter 8) Who was Mr.Graves? What did he give Lyddie?
- he was the agent that would sign on Lyddie for a year of work.
(chapter 9) What was the room full of looms like?
- very load
(chapter 9) who was the nice girl that showed Lyddie the ropes of the factory?
- Diana
(chapter 9) How did Lyddie room mate react when they learned that she met Diana?
- They told Lyddie to stay away because she was trying to get people to sign a petition for better work hours.
- she was bad news.
(chapter 9) what was Diana fighting for?
- she was fighting for better work hours and better work conditions in the factory.
(chapter 9) How was Diana toward Lyddie
- very nice, respectful, didn’t tell Lyddie to be some one else.
(chapter 9) When Lyddie wanted to write to write to Charlie and her mom, what did Diana do for Lyddie
- Diana gave Lyddie some paper and payed for the mailing costs
(chapter 10)on her first day of working in the factory, what did Lyddie soon find out about factory life?
-The work conditions were garbage
- it was very moist and hard to breath
- it was very load
- very dusty
(chapter 10) What would Besty do for Lyddie before she would go to sleep?
- She would read Oliver Twist to her
(chapter 10) who would Lyddie compare Oliver to?
-She would compare him to Charlie
(chapter 11) How would Lyddie escape the craziness of factory life?
- she would go to listen to the story of Oliver Twist
(chapter 11) Where was Besty borrowing her book from? What did Lyddie do about it? Could Besty read the book every night?
-She got the book from the Lending Library
- Lyddie would pay the 5 cents for lending costs
- Besty could not read every night
(chapter 11) what did Besty want to do in the future after working? Where was Bestys brother going to school?
- she was saving to go to a college in Ohio
- her brother was going to Harvard