Assignment task: Based off of: I Came a Stranger by Hilda Satt Polacheck
Q1. Why did the Satt family leave Poland?
Q2. What was the family's first impressions of America?
Q3. Compare life for the family before and after the death of Hilda's father, Louis Satt.
Q4. What did Hilda do to help her family out? What kind of jobs did she take? What did her mother do? Why?
Q5. When did Hilda first go to Hull House? Why was she so hesitant?
Q6. What services did Hull House provide the community? Why did Hilda feel that Hull House made it so that she could marry a man like Bill Polacheck?
Q7. Why was the Walking Delegate so important to Hilda?
Q8. Describe Hilda's courtship with Bill Polacheck? What was both of their family's reaction to the courtship?
Q9. What was her life like in Milwaukee? Describe the social and political activities that she became involved in.
Q10. How did Hilda feel about Socialism, World War I, the Peace Movement, Woman's Suffrage, the Great Depression? How did she survive the Great Depression?
Q11. Why did she have such a hard time getting her book published?