Chp 11 Esperanza Rising - Avocados

What methods did the strikers use to organize and spread their message?

• Handing out flyers, painting slogans on barns, and holding meetings.

• Blocking roads and physically confronting non-striking workers.

• Destroying crops and farm equipment to disrupt operations.

• Engaging in direct negotiations with the farm owners.

What was Esperanza's primary motivation for needing to keep her job during the strike?

• She wanted to earn enough money to buy her own farm.

• Her mother was ill, and she needed funds for medical bills and to help her grandmother travel.

• She believed the strike was unjust and wanted to support the growers.

• She was saving up to return to Mexico.

What dangerous items were found hidden among the asparagus and in the field bins during the strike?

• Spoiled food and rotten vegetables.

• Broken tools and discarded clothing.

• Rats, gopher snakes, razor blades, and glass shards.

• Empty water bottles and old newspapers.

What event caused the sudden silence in the packing shed and the scattering of the strikers?

• The arrival of a large group of new workers.

• A severe dust storm that reduced visibility.

• The appearance of immigration officials and police.

• An announcement that the strike had ended.

What reason did the officials give for deporting the farm workers, including citizens?

• They were not productive enough.

• They were causing problems for the government by trying to form a union.

• They had committed serious crimes.

• The growers wanted to replace them with workers from the East.

How did Esperanza help Marta avoid being caught by immigration officials?

• She told the officials that Marta was a citizen.

• She created a diversion to distract the officials.

• She gave Marta an apron and asparagus to make her look like a worker.

• She hid Marta in her own home.

What was Miguel's prediction about the deported farm workers?

• They would never return to the United States.

• They would find better jobs in Mexico.

• They would reorganize, become stronger, and eventually return.

• They would be forgotten by the government and growers.

What did Esperanza see at the deserted farm camp that symbolized the broken hopes of the farm workers?

• A new group of workers already harvesting the crops.

• A goat tied to a tree, bleeding for freedom.

• A broken piñata with its insides torn out.

• The chain-link fence still surrounding the field.