These men were responsible for burning down El Rancho de las Rosas.
Who are Tio Luis and Tio Marco?
100
Don't be afraid to start over!
Who is Abuelilta?
100
Planting too much wheat, breaking up the native grasses with gas powered tractors, plowing in straight rows, drought, and wind.
What are the causes of dust storms (the dust bowl)?
100
How the field workers keep track of the time of year.
What is by the crop being harvested?
100
The Spanish word for grandma.
What is Abuelita?
200
The egg lady on the train who feels rich, even though she is not wealthy.
Who is Carmen?
200
The person who calls Esperanza "La Reina" - the queen.
Who is Miguel?
200
The period of time in the 1930s when U. S. banks closed and many people were out of work.
What is the Great Depression?
200
This object symbolizes that life is full of ups and downs
What is Abuelita's zig-zag blanket?
200
Papa and his vaqueros had been ______ed and killed while mending a fence on the farthest reaches of the ranch.
What is ambushed?
300
The helpless animal that Marta compares with Mexican workers who don't speak up for their rights.
What is a kitten?
300
"Wait a little while and the fruit will fall into your hand."
Who is Papa?
300
The state most severely hurt by the Dust Bowl, whose people moved to California in large numbers.
What is Oklahoma?
300
This is the symbol Esperanza uses to show Miguel that they are from two different classes of people?
What is the river?
300
"They work wherever there is something to be harvested. Those camps, the _________ camps, are the worst."
What is migrant?
400
A disease from fungus breathed in during dust storms.
What is Valley Fever?
400
We cannot travel in this car. It is not clean, and the people do not seem trustworthy.
Who is Esperanza?
400
A famous artist who photographed migrant workers during the Dust Bowl.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
400
The mythological bird that burns and comes back to life that represents beginning a new life in California.
What is the phoenix?
400
But the lugs of asparagus that were sent back to the sheds had to be taken across the ___________ and the strikers often slipped surprises beneath the harvest.
What are picket lines?
500
The place where Mexicans can shop and know they will be treated as people with dignity.
Where/what is Mr. Yakota's store?
(Where/what is the Japanese store?
500
There is more than one way to get what you want in this country. Maybe I must be more determined than others to succeed, but I know that that will happen.
Who is Miguel?
500
The policy of deporting Mexican nationals and Mexican American citizens to Mexico during the Great Depression in order to give jobs to white Americans instead.
What is Mexican Repatriation?
500
What Abuelita saw in the garden at the convent that made her think that something was wrong with the mother in California.
What is a bird with a broken wing?
500
They are talking about forming a farm workers' ___________ and the government and the growers don't like that.