Ellis Island Quiz

True or False: More than 12 million immigrants made their first stop in America at Ellis Island.

• True

• False

Ellis Island operated between the years 1892 and ______.

• 1950

• 1952

• 1954

• 1956

Put the Steps of Ellis Island in the correct order.

• Baggage

• Stairs of Separation

• Medical Exam

• Legal Inspection

• Registry

The trips across the Atlantic lasted one to two _______.

As many as ______ people crowded the ships

• 2,000

• 2,500

• 3,000

• 3,500

Match the following

• Had their health exams on the ship

• Third class

• Waited for hours or days to be taken for processing

• First and Second Class

• Were processed on board and could leave once docked.

• First and Second Class

How old was the first person through Ellis Island?

• 15

• 31

• 50

• 22

Match the following

• Long lines of people waiting for inspection

• Baggage room

• Baggage left here until processing was done.

• Medical Exam

• Healthy people only passed this point

• Legal Inspection

• Point where families were reunited at the end of processing

• Kissing Post

• Each person had to answer 29 questions with no mistakes.

• Registry room

How long did the medical exam take?

• six seconds

• ten minutes

• six minutes

• thirty minutes

If you failed a medical or legal inspection, you became a _________.