Lyddie Questions Chapters 1-4

Chapter 1

Chapter Lyddie – Chapter 1

Answer each question and write where (page #) you found the answer.

Literal:

1.     What is the first thing we learn about Mama? 

2.     Who is the youngest person in the family?

3.     What was the date of the year of the bear?

4.     What was Lyddie’s thought as she watched the bear from the loft?

5.     Where are they going tomorrow?

6.     What does Mama say to Charles when he asks how father will find them?

7.     What was the only charity that Lyddie dreaded more than Aunt Clarissa?

8.     Who was sent to make sure Agnes and Rachel reached Uncle Judah’s farm safely?

9.     Charles tells Lyddie to ask for help from whom?

10.  To whom is Lyddie hired out?

Inferential:

11.  What is the “joke” that Charles finds in Mama’s letter?

12.  What seems to be unusual about the Stevenses?

13.  Compare Mama’s reaction to everyone else after the bear left.

14.  What were the main reasons that their father headed West?

15.  What is the metaphor Mam makes regarding the bear?

16.  How did the cows get born every spring?

17.  Describe the change in Mam since their father left.

Evaluative

18.  Why does the author bring the bear to the cabin in the first chapter? What does she reveal about the characters in doing so?

19.  What do you think the bear represents in the book?

20.  How does Lyddie feel about the Stevens family? What does that reveal about her character?

21.  Why do you think the memory of that one morning stayed with Lyddie?

22.  What do you believe the conflict in the story is?

Reflective: (answer individually on a separate piece of paper)

1.     Think about a time when you have felt responsible for other members of your family. Have you ever been a babysitter? Have you ever had to fill the role of a parent? Have you ever had to go without something you thought you really needed (as Lyddie and her siblings have to do without food)?

2.     Describe how you can relate your experience to Lyddie’s experience. Write a paragraph explaining how you are like Lyddie in any way.

Chapter 2 & 3

Lyddie Chapters 2 & 3
Due: ________________

1.     Who do Lyddie and Charles sell their calf to?

2.     Who drives Charles and Lyddie to their new workplace?  Where do they go to work?

3.     Describe Lyddie's life in the tavern.

4.     How does Lyddie react to seeing a factory girl for the first time?

5.     How does Lyddie's appearance differ from that of the factory girl?

6.     Quote at least three similes from the first three chapters.  Be sure to include page numbers. (simile = when two unlike things are compared; ex: as bright as the sun; something is something or something is like something)

Chapter 4

LYDDIE: Chapter 4

      1) Write the dialogue you think Lyddie wished she could have had with Charlie.

      2) What was the significance of the talk about runaway slaves? Do you think Lyddie has a strong opinion about this? Do you think she has changed her thinking about this? What might she be thinking?

      3) Think about the story about the frogs that Triphena tells Lyddie. Why does she tell the story? Who do you think Triphena would say is a "natural born kicker?" What events from the story lead her to say this?

      4) Do you think children during this time were obligated to obey their parents?