The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Part A According to “Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” which of these methods is most likely to stop the plague of pesticides?
a.
urging farm workers to refuse to work in fields in which pesticides have been used
b.
showing growers statistics about the cases of cancer among farm workers and their families
c.
convincing government leaders of the need to pass tougher legislation and jail growers who use pesticides on their crops
d.
persuading consumers to boycott contaminated produce until growers have to stop using deadly pesticides if they want to sell their crops

Part B Which quotation from “Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” best supports the answer to Part A?
a.
The children live in communities surrounded by the grape fields that employ their parents. The children come into contact with the poisons . . . . They are dying slow, painful, cruel deaths in towns called cancer clusters . . . .
b.
When our workers complain, or try to organize, they are fired, assaulted, and even murdered . . . the growers turn armed foremen on innocent farm workers in California.
c.
The stench of injustice in California should offend every American . . . . The growers used their wealth to buy good friends like Governor George Deukmajian, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush.
d.
I have seen many boycotts succeed. Dr. King showed us the way with the bus boycott, and with our first boycott we were able to get DDT, Aldrin, and Dieldrin banned in our first contracts with grape growers.