Operation Clean Sweep

What did Flora promise to do if she was mayor?

Choose ALL of them

• pay back the town electric bill

• reinstall the street lights so the streets are not dark at night

• make a law against chickens running rampant

• Move Elmer's grave

Which two women were most important in leading the women's suffrage movement?

CHOOSE 2 Answers

• Lucretia Mott

• Sophronia Taylor

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whose tombstone sits in the middle of Main Street?

• Elmer

• Otis

• Mr. Sanwick

• Susan B Anthony

Tallied means

• equal

• counted

• fact

• underestimate

A synonym for politics is

• men

• tallied

• opinion

• government

Who is the narrator of the story?

• Otis

• Cornelius Sanwick

• Mrs. Flora Sanwick

• Mr. Sanwick

Describe how Corn is feeling throughout the story?

• angry and upset

• happy and excited

• sinister and evil

• anxious and nervous

Tell me a possible theme for Operation Clean Sweep

• equality between men and women is important

• A boy is nervous about both of his parents running for mayor

• politics

• Chickens running rampant in the streets

The chickens were running rampant in the street.

rampant means...

• stay away from chickens

• slow

• uncontrollable

• underestimate

In Operation Clean Sweep, Dad says, "Never underestimate the power of a woman" (pg 78). What does underestimate mean?

• undervalue

• excited

• overestimate

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