Lyddie - Chapter 3 - Answer Key

Vocabulary

1. ochre - natural earth ranging in color from pale yellow to red and orange

2. tavern - a public house for travelers and other; inn; pub

3. drudges - a person who does menial, distasteful, dull or hard work

4. hideous - horrible or frightful to the senses

5. frilled - a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace gathered along the edge; a ruffle

6. homespun - simple; plain ; made at home

7. blacksmith - a person who forges object of iron; one who makes horseshoes

8. garment - any article of clothing

9. calico - a plain-woven cotton cloth printed with figured pattern usually on one side

10. servitude - slavery or bondage of any kind

11. eaves - the over hanging lower edge of a roof

12. comrade - a person who shares in one’s activities, occupation, etc

a companion, associate, or friend

Setting for Chapter 3

Cutler’s Tavern

Characters

Mistress Cutler

Triphena

Willie Hyde

Pink Silk Dress Lady

Plot

1. Lyddie arrives at the tavern and she is amazed at the things she sees A. the huge building they call a tavern B. the big kitchen with all its elaborate cooking equipment and also the fine foods being served

2. Lyddie feels out of place because she is dressed so poorly.

3. Lyddie encounters a woman dressed in very fine clothes, pink shawl.

How do setting, character, and/or plot nteract?

(1.) A. Because Lydde is dirty and dressed in her homemade clothes, Mistress Cutler mistakes her for a beggar, from the township poor farm.

B. Triphena says that Lyddie is plain and won’t be any trouble with the guests not leaving her be like with the last girl at who worked at the tavern.

(2.) Because Mistress Cutler was so suspecting, she watched Lyddie carefully probably for fear that Lyddie would steal something or food

even though the Mistress was rich with both material possessions and food.

Lyddie worked harder at the tavern than she had worked at the farm

Lyddie had to slept under the eaves in a windowless hot, airless passage.

Lyddie was ordered to bed late and obliged to rise early . (p. 24)