Comprehension Hope and Tears Ellis Island

How is Ellis Island used today?

• as a hospital

• for deportation

• for immigration

• as a museum

Which sentence from the selection tells you how Ellis Island is used today?

• Doctor's inspected immigrants and cared for them in the island's hospitals.

• Ellis Island reopened to the public in 1990 as an immigration museum.

• From the late 1920's until 1054, the main work of Ellis Island was deportation, sending undesirable immigrants back home.

• During WWII, the island also housed people thought to be a threat to the United States.

From the writing of Lucia, the cook, you learn that

• people from the north of Italy like to wear boots.

• flour was one of the things that immigrants carried with them.

• many immigrants were unfamiliar with the food she made.

• she liked to fool people by cooking white worms.

You can figure out from Pearl Libow's story that

• she got sick on the boat.

• her father had silver whiskers.

• people on the ship were very cold.

• soon she would be sent back to Russia.

An opinion form the story is

• doctors checked immigrants to see if they were healthy.

• the hardest thing for the immigrants was waiting.

• not all people who reached Ellis Island were allowed to immigrate.

• more than 650 people worked on Ellis Island in 1913.

Which TWO reasons would prevent someone from entering the United States through Ellis Island?

• Speaking a language other than English

• some kind of disease

• wearing clothes from their former country

• not having enough money

How is the story from Augustus Sherman different from the other stories?

• Augustus worked on the island as a photographer.

• Augustus was an American and didn't have to go through inspection when he got to the island.

• Augustus was sent back to his country.

• Augustus had the terrible eye disease.

why did Annie Moore call her parents the "best present of all"?

• Annie liked to give presents to people all the time.

• Annie and her brothers hadn't seen her parents in 2 years and it was Anine's birthday.

• All Annie thought about was getting presents.

• Her brothers wanted to get presents every day.

Why did Margaret say she would only buy boots with laces?

• She didn't like velcro.

• She couldn't stand to wear other kinds of shoes.

• She was afraid of the hook used to test their eyes.

• She didn't like boots.

Why did doctors check immigrants for contagious diseases?

• To keep them safe so they would not get anyone else infected.

• So they could send them back to their country to get them sick.

• So they could infect all of the Americans.

• They didn't like them and they wanted to make their life harder.