<p>Uprising, Margaret Peterson Haddix Name:______Homework Date:______Class:______</p><p>Answer the following questions using complete sentences. Be sure to refer back to the text, pages 32-37.</p><p>1. The author italicizes text much more in Bella’s chapter than in Yetta’s chaper. Why might Haddix do this? ______</p><p>2. What is the meaning and effect of the expression “blaze of glory” in the following quote: “It had been a jolt to discover that Rahel didn’t walk around in a blaze of glory” (Haddix 33). ______</p><p>3. How does the author, Haddix, develop coherence among the girls’ stories? (Hint: consider pages 33, 34, and 40). ______Uprising, Margaret Peterson Haddix Name:______Homework Date:______Class:______</p><p>Answer the following questions using complete sentences. Be sure to refer back to the text, pages 32-37. </p><p>4. On page 34, why does the author, Haddix, isolate “Shirtwaist Kings” in quotation marks? ______</p><p>5. Why does Mr. Elfuzin say, “They’re bleeding us to death?” (Haddix 36). Why might he choose these words? ______Uprising, Margaret Peterson Haddix Name:______Homework Date:______Class:______</p><p>Answer the following questions using complete sentences. Be sure to refer back to the text, pages 38-43. </p><p>1. Create a list of adjectives (describing words) from Jane’s chapter. Based on these words, draw a conclusion about what life is like for Jane. ______</p><p>2. How does the author, Haddix, establish Jane’s feelings about her lifestyle? ______</p><p>3. What does the dash signify in the following excerpt? “My niece started in a factory when she was twelve, sewing buttons on coats, and now she makes – ” (Haddix 40) ______</p><p>4. Consider the characters of Miss Millhouse, Sally, Rahel, and Pietro. What common function do these characters share? ______Explain the use of the dash in the following excerpt: Why might the author, “This was a new Bella in Haddix, have chosen to the New World – a new start this chapter with an Bella who didn’t even dare incomplete sentence? (7) to look Pietro in the eye.” (Haddix 7) Why might the author, Identify and explain the Haddix, have chosen a two ways that the author dash instead of another uses italics on page 13. type of punctuation? When talking about Bella’s In this chapter, Bella family, the narrator states: makes repeated mention “Why else would Bella of fire escapes. Identify have come halfway one of these examples. around the world, to this Why might have Haddix strange place, except that chosen to do this? Do you her family was think it is an effective part desperate?” (Haddix 16) of her writing? Why or What is the purpose of this why not? question? What does the narrator When Bella is at the mean when she says Bella factory what is the would “walk over burning purpose and/or effect of coals to help her family” the short sentences: “Cut, (Haddix 17)? What type of cut, drop, drop” (Haddix language is this? 19)?</p>