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Quiz for Document 24–4: Jose Flores, Interview, Farm Security Administration Migrant Labor Camp, El Rio, California, 1941

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. According to Flores, why were migrant farmworkers in the FSA camp at El Rio?

Their employers sent them there so that they did not have to look after the farmworkers anymore.

New Deal legislation made government housing for farmworkers a legal requirement.

The FSA allowed undocumented as well as legal immigrants, while company camps evicted the former.

Their company camps had kicked them out because they had tried to strike for a pay increase.

2. How did Flores characterize relations between Mexican American farmworkers and Okie migrants?

Mexican American farmworkers were hostile toward Okie competition.

Mexican American farmworkers invited Okies to join their strike.

Mexican American farmworkers understood that Okies needed work to survive.

Mexican American farmworkers refused to send their children to school with Okies.

3. According to Flores, how did most Mexican Americans react to school segregation?

They protested segregation with peaceful demonstrations.

They felt relatively powerless to change the system.

They refused to send their children to segregated schools.

They welcomed the opportunity to forge unity among Mexican Americans.

4. Flores described how clubs in Los Angeles addressed employment discrimination by

educating employers about Mexican Americans.

coordinating local boycotts.

organizing public demonstrations.

asking city government to intervene.