THIS IS FROM THE HARVEST GYPSIES ARTICLE 1 What factors lead to the migrants being easy targets for exploitation once they arrive in California?

Steinbeck describes a progression of events that break the migrants' spirits. What are those events?

According to Steinbeck, how do the small farmers' and larger growers' attitudes towards labor differ? Explain the different treatment the migrants receive from the two groups.

What do the migrant workers fear most?

Why is that these “gypsies” are unable to find work and keep that job forever? Why is it that they are forced to keep moving around?

What is the one urge, the one overwhelming need that all the wandering migrant families and workers wanted?

How did the midwestern farming lifestyle differ from that of the more fast paced farming of California?

What do Steinbeck’s articles try to establish? What information do they reveal to readers in today’s modern world?