Scholastic News - Cesar Chavez

What is the definition for a migrant worker?

• organization of workers that pretexts its members' rights

• people who move from one place to another in order to find work

• a device used to replace a missing or injured body part

Which sentence uses the migrant worker correctly in a sentence?

• The migrant worker traveled from farm to farm, depending on where he could find work.

• The migrant worker have been working 40 hours a week Kroger for the last 10 years.

What is the definition for a union?

• related to the buying and selling of goods

• people who move from one place to another in order to find work

• organization of workers that pretexts its members' rights

Which sentence uses the union correctly?

• The workers were unhappy with what was served for union.

• Chavez co-founded a group that later became the United Farm Workers union.

• The boy stepped on the union and broke his foot.

The main purpose of the article is to ____________________.

• describe what a union is

• persuade readers to become farmworkers

• describe Cesar Chavez's childhood on a farm

• explain how Chavez helped farmworkers

Based on the article, a boycott is a ____________________.

• protest in which people refuse to buy goods

• group that protects workers' rights

• protest in which people only march

• grape farm

According to the article, why did Chavez's family move so much?

• They were trying to find a good school.

• They were looking for work.

• They enjoyed traveling.

• They didn't like Arizona

When did Chavez's family become migrant workers?

• They wanted to travel so they started moving from farm to farm looking for work.

• They were always migrant workers.

• When Chavez was 11 and they lost their farm in Arizona.

When did Chavez's stop going to school?

• after 8th grade

• after he finished high school

• after he turned 11

How long did Chavez have to work to get California to pass the law to allow farm laborers to form unions and bargain for fair pay and better working conditions?

• 5 months

• 10 years

• 6 years