Q 01/05

Which wild animal forces its way into the family cabin in the opening chapter of Lyddie?

A) A timber wolf

B) A black bear

C) A catamount

D) A bull moose

Answer · why

B) A black bear

A black bear smells food cooking and pushes through the door, and Lyddie stares it down while her family climbs to the loft. From then on she thinks o...

Q 02/05

In Lyddie, what does Lyddie's deeply religious mother take the animal's break-in to be a sign of?

A) A long, hungry winter

B) A coming plague

C) The end of the world

D) A curse on the farm

Answer · why

C) The end of the world

The end of the world, Mama decides, is close, so she takes the two youngest girls to her sister's farm to wait for it. Tens of thousands of real Ameri...

Q 03/05

In Lyddie, which word does Mama misspell in a letter, handing Lyddie and Charlie a private joke?

A) Hope

B) Home

C) Debt

D) Farm

Answer · why

A) Hope

Hope comes out one letter short in Mama's letter, so it reads like a word for jumping. Charlie teases her spelling to cheer his sister up, and the sli...

Q 04/05

In Lyddie, what kind of business does Mistress Cutler run, where Lyddie is hired out as a servant?

A) A dairy farm

B) A flour mill

C) A general store

D) A tavern

Answer · why

D) A tavern

A tavern is where Lyddie works from before dawn until late at night, in a kitchen bigger than her family's whole house. A well-dressed guest there fir...

Q 05/05

In Lyddie, the kindly neighbors who look after the empty farm belong to which religious group?

A) Shakers

B) Methodists

C) Baptists

D) Quakers

Answer · why

D) Quakers

Quakers taught that slavery was morally wrong, and many quietly sheltered people escaping it. Lyddie is wary of her neighbors' radical politics at fir...