Excerpt from the harvest gypsies questions
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part a: which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?

a
while steinbeck doesn’t agree with the treatment of migrant workers, he understands that treating them unfairly is necessary to support america’s agriculture industry.
b
despite the hostility toward migrant workers and their difficult life experiences, their work is essential to the success of the nation’s agriculture industry.
c
migrant workers are often taken advantage of during harvests, because they don’t know that they have a right to better conditions and pay.
d
while america understands that it abuses the labor of migrant workers, the nation appreciates the sacrifices workers make to support the agriculture industry.

part b: which two details from the text best support the answer to part a?

a
“the unique nature of california agriculture requires that these migrants exist, and requires that they move about. peaches and grapes, hops and cotton cannot be harvested by a resident population of laborers.” ( paragraph 3)
b
“the migrants are needed, and they are hated. arriving in a district they find the dislike always meted out by the resident to the foreigner, the outlander.” ( paragraph 4)
c
“but in recent years the foreign migrants have begun to organize, and at this danger signal they have been deported in great numbers, for there was a new reservoir from which a great quantity of cheap labor could be obtained.” ( paragraph 6)
d
“the earlier foreign migrants have invariably been drawn from a peon class. this is not the case with the new migrants.” ( paragraph 12)
e
“they are resourceful and intelligent americans who have gone through the hell of the drought, have seen their lands wither and die and the top soil blow away” ( paragraph 14)
f
“they have come from the little farm districts where democracy was not only possible but inevitable, where popular government, whether practiced in the grange, in church organization or in local government, was the responsibility of every man.” ( paragraph 24)