1. What protest does "The Cry of the Children" voice?
2. Since this poem was written have steps been taken to improve the condition of children who work? Name some of the limitations of child labor in your state.
3. To what country does "our happy Fatherland" refer?
4. What potent evil now partially remedied by law was prevalent in the factories and mines of those days?
5. Were the sanitary conditions of the factories regulated by law, such as light, cleanliness, etc.? (See encyclopedia.)
6. How is the moral and physical life of a child affected by such close and continuous application to work of this character?
7. What would Mrs. Browning make the guiding principle in the solution of economic ills?
FOR REFERENCE
"The Book of Noble Englishwomen."—Bruce.