About Cesar

Which of the following inferences is best supported by this paragraph?

A first-generation American, he was born on March 31, 1927, near his family’s small homestead in the North Gila River Valley outside Yuma, Arizona. At age 11, his family lost their farm during the Great Depression and became migrant farm workers. Throughout his youth and into adulthood, Cesar traveled the migrant streams throughout California laboring in the fields, orchards and vineyards, where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life.

• The Chavez family preferred their life as migrant workers compared to the pressures of running a farm.

• Cesar Chavez wanted to start a farm worker’s union when he was only 11 years old.

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• Cesar Chavez personally experienced the hardships of migrant farm work.

• The Great Depression opened up a lot of jobs in agriculture.

Which of the following best explains Cesar’s schooling?

• He studied horticulture in school

• He was homeschooled as a child.

• He tested out as a young adult, superior to many college students.

• His intellectual development continued through reading books on a variety of subjects.

What do the following lines from the text reveal about Cesar?

The coming years would bring much more adversity: Strikes and boycotts, marches and fasts, victories and defeats. But through it all, Cesar learned and taught others how commitment and sacrifice can set you free from the constraints imposed by depending entirely on money and material things.

• He changed his mind about fighting for migrant workers’ rights.

• He wants to be wealthy so he can escape hardship.

• He believes all rich people are cruel.

• He believes that money and things imprison you.

According to the text, which of the following best summarizes the accomplishments of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union?

• The union carries copies work of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• The union protects the dignity, health and financial welfare of the farmworkers.

• The union wants farmers to plant new crops.

• The union workers invented new chemicals to make crops grow faster.

Which of these inferences about Cesar’s belief in people is best supported by the text?

• He likes people to enjoy their food.

• He is a hero because he was genetically gifted and received a college education.

• He knew that people would name streets, schools, and buildings after him.

• He believes ordinary people can accomplish the exceptional if they work together.

Which sentence from the text best supports your answer to Question 5?

• “Cesar liked to say that his job as an organizer was helping ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

• “Arizona. At age 11, his family lost their farm during the Great Depression and became migrant farm workers..”

• “Cesar passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 23, 1993”

• “In 1994, President Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, at the White House.”

Which of the following best describes an important motivation in Cesar’s life?

• He wants to become the center of religious life in the farm worker community.

• He has political ambitions to run for Governor of California.

• He does not want to deal with the powerful.

• He believes every individual needs to be valued regardless of their economic status in life.

Which statement from the text best supports your answer to Question 7?

• “A true American hero, Cesar was a civil rights, Latino and farm labor leader;”

• “He gave people the faith to believe in themselves, even if they were poor and unable to receive the best education.”

• “Over four decades, Cesar saw his share of defeats, but also historic victories.”

• “He was able to do the impossible by challenging and overcoming the power of one of the country’s richest industries in California.”

What is the meaning of eclectic as it appears in the text?

“Although his formal education ended then, he later satisfied an insatiable intellectual curiosity and was self-taught on an eclectic range of subjects through reading during the rest of his life.”

• [adjective] charitable

• [adjective] generic

• [adjective] global

• [adjective] extensive, diverse