Q: Woody Guthrie left California for New York in 1940. There he met Alan Lomax, an expert on America's traditional music. He collected and recorded traditional American folk music, which had few fans at that time. When he heard Woody sing, Lomax knew he had found a true singer of American folk music. Lomax recorded many of Woody's songs for the Library of Congress.

Three years later, Woody published a book called Bound for Glory. It was about his early life and travels. From this book people came to learn how Woody had spent his unhappy youth. His mother, Nora Guthrie, died of Huntington's Disease in 1929 when he was only seventeen years old. There was no treatment for the disease. About twenty years later, the disease also began to attack the son. Woody's health got worse and worse, and finally he entered a hospital.

While Woody seemed to be forgotten, his music was not. By the late 1950s, folk music became popular in America. More Americans began listening and playing the songs of Woody Guthrie. Young folk singers came to New York to visit Woody in the hospital. Among them was Bob Dylan, one of America's greatest popular songwriters. He called Woody his hero. Dylan and others copied the way Woody sang and played the guitar. And like Woody, they wrote songs that called for social and political justice .

Woody Guthrie stayed in the hospital until he died in 1967. In the last years of his life, Woody could hardly speak. But his family and friends knew he still believed in the causes he had sung and written about all his life. They knew this because when they sang his songs, Woody's eyes would become brighter and his defiant spirit would shine through.

1. 1940
2. NewYork
3. Alan Lomax
4. American music
5. collected and recorded it
6. no
7. Lomax recirded his songs
8. in the hospital
9. 1967
10. noeak.
11. hearing his songs
12. folk music
13. a book
14. Bound for Glory
15. his early life
16. Nora
17. Huntington's Disease
18. 929
19. seventeen
20. Huntington's disease

Numbered questions:
1. When did Woody leave California?
2. Where did he go?
3. Who did he meet there?
4. What was Alan an expert in?
5. What did he do with the music?
6. Was it popular during that time period?
7. What happened after he sang for him?
8. Where did Woody stay until he passed away?
9. When was that?
10. Was he able to perform at all right before he passed away?
11. What brought happiness and light to him in his final days?
12. What did he write?
13. Did he write anything else?
14. What was it called?
15. What was it about?
16. Who was his mom?
17. What did she pass away from?
18. When was that?
19. How old was he when she passed?
20. What did he die of?

Q: CHAPTER XVIII

I

THOUGH he saw them twice daily, though he knew and amply discussed every detail of their expenditures, yet for weeks together Babbitt was no more conscious of his children than of the buttons on his coat-sleeves.

The admiration of Kenneth Escott made him aware of Verona.

She had become secretary to Mr. Gruensberg of the Gruensberg Leather Company; she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them; but she was one of the people who give an agitating impression of being on the point of doing something desperate--of leaving a job or a husband--without ever doing it. Babbitt was so hopeful about Escott's hesitant ardors that he became the playful parent. When he returned from the Elks he peered coyly into the living-room and gurgled, "Has our Kenny been here to-night?" He never credited Verona's protest, "Why, Ken and I are just good friends, and we only talk about Ideas. I won't have all this sentimental nonsense, that would spoil everything."

It was Ted who most worried Babbitt.

With conditions in Latin and English but with a triumphant record in manual training, basket-ball, and the organization of dances, Ted was struggling through his Senior year in the East Side High School. At home he was interested only when he was asked to trace some subtle ill in the ignition system of the car. He repeated to his tut-tutting father that he did not wish to go to college or law-school, and Babbitt was equally disturbed by this "shiftlessness" and by Ted's relations with Eunice Littlefield, next door.

1. unknown
2. twice daily
3. yes
4. Ted
5. unknown
6. yes
7. yes
8. Senior
9. no
10. cars
11. yes
12. no
13. Eunice Littlefield
14. yes
15. Verona
16. yes
17. Gruensberg Leather Company
18. Mr. Gruensberg
19. secretary
20. Ken

Numbered questions:
1. How many children does Babbitt have?
2. How often does he see them?
3. Does he have a son?
4. What is his name?
5. How old is he?
6. Is he an adult?
7. Is he still in high school?
8. Which year?
9. Is he doing well?
10. What does he like to work on?
11. Is he good at basketball?
12. Is he planning to continue school after high school?
13. Who's his girlfriend?
14. Does Babbitt have a daughter?
15. What is her name?
16. Is she an adult?
17. Who does she work for?
18. Who is her boss?
19. What is her job?
20. Who is her friend?