Uprising

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. When Yetta is trapped in the fire, whose earlier advice does she finally understand?

A) Bella’s

B) Rahel’s

C) Harriet’s

D) Jane’s

2. Over the course of the novel, why does Bella’s attitude toward her job change?

A) She becomes less naive.

B) She becomes more accepting.

C) She learns to work harder.

D) She learns to value education.

3. How does Mrs. Livingston meet her future husband?

A) He works in a factory with her.

B) He is an attorney who supports the union.

C) He is her landlord’s son.

D) He is in the same English class.

4. How does Jane end up serving as a kind of foil for Miss Millhouse?

A) She supports the struggle to unionize garment workers.

B) She becomes a governess who supports women’s growth and development.

C) She develops friendships with women from other social classes.

D) She leaves her father’s home when it becomes a kind of prison for her.

5. Which is the most accurate description of the role Mr. Corrigan plays in Jane’s life?

A) He spies on her for her father.

B) He is Jane’s biggest critic.

C) He is romantically interested in Jane.

D) He is like a second father to Jane.

6. What is gradually revealed about Eleanor’s attitude toward the causes she supports?

A) She does not take the causes as seriously as she pretends to.

B) She is only supporting these causes to impress a man she likes.

C) Her main interest in these causes is to upset her mother.

D) She uses these causes to distract herself from her troubled personal life.

7. Whose influence is most clearly seen in the adult Harriet’s behavior?

A) Yetta’s

B) Bella’s

C) Millicent’s

D) Jane’s

8. Which statement most clearly expresses the idea this novel communicates about money?

A) Money is important, but it is not as important as love.

B) In America, anyone can work hard, earn money, and rise socially.

C) In America, money is the language of power.

D) Money causes most of the problems in the world.

9. Which plot point shows most clearly that social class and biological sex prevent most people from moving around freely in pursuit of their goals?

A) Jane’s acceptance of a governess position

B) Bella’s frustrated search for Pietro

C) Rahel’s advice to Yetta to take a job at a smaller factory

D) Yetta’s anger over Rahel’s marriage and pregnancy

10. Which is the best expression of the factory bosses’ attitude about the workers’ inability to speak English?

A) The workers’ inability to speak English is embarrassing to the bosses because it carries a social stigma.

B) The bosses are frustrated because the language barrier makes it harder to train workers and develop workplace relationships.

C) The bosses understand the problem and offer English classes to help their workers adjust to America.

D) The workers’ inability to speak English is convenient because it increases the bosses’ power.

11. Which statement most clearly expresses the idea this novel communicates about discrimination against women?

A) Men will do anything they have to do to oppress women.

B) With each generation, women are allowed more freedom and power.

C) Society and its rules are organized to limit women’s freedom.

D) Even women are unaware of the true capacities of women.

12. Which statement most clearly expresses the idea this novel communicates about dreams and romance?

A) Both dreams and romance have dual natures—they can inspire us or hold us back.

B) When your circumstances are difficult, dreams and romance are the only things that keep you going.

C) Romance is a goal worth striving for, but other dreams are just distractions.

D) Dreams are highly individual, and romance is not a dream for everyone.

13. Which word most clearly expresses what clothing stands for in this novel?

A) Status

B) Protection

C) Ambition

D) Individuality

14. Which other character’s approach to change is reflected in Eleanor’s corset metaphor?

A) Jane’s

B) Rahel’s

C) Yetta’s

D) Bella’s

15. Whose words does Bella whisper to her children at the end of the novel?

A) Harriet’s

B) Her own mother’s

C) Yetta’s and Rahel’s

D) Her own, Jane’s, and Yetta’s

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. Why does Bella decide, at the end of the novel, that she must be friends with Harriet?

2. Why might Harriet be personally interested in the question of whether Mr. Wellington earned his “atonement” by leaving his money to the suffrage movement?