Coming To America: The Story Of Immigration Comprehension Test

1.) How do the details in the paragraph support the idea that immigration can be difficult?

• by telling how people hoped for good fortune
• by telling of the trouble and hardship that European immigrants left behind
• by telling about their new lives
• by telling how they built their new homes in the Americas

2.) Which sentence best states a main idea of the passage?

• Everyone in America is from Europe.
• America is a nation of immigrants and their descendants.
• Nomads came from Alaska.
• The living space was very cramped.

3.) Based on the text, which sentence best explains the relationship between many people who had come from the same country?

• People who had come from the same country felt more at home near others who spoke the same language.
• People who had come from the same country felt like there was no difference between America and their homeland.
• Their new lives were easy.
• They could afford basic necessities.

4.) How does the author support the main idea of people moving westward?

• The author tells how they traveled.
• The author suggests that they liked adventures.
• The author tells how free land was offered to those who would farm it.
• All of these

5.) According to the process described in the passage, what happened after the immigrants on Ellis Island passed the health inspection?

• They were asked a long list of questions.
• They were asked to sing the national anthem.
• They were asked to say the pledge to the flag
• They were given $40 and a place to stay.

6.) Which sentence would the author most likely agree with?

• People don't want to leave America when they come by ship.
• America is rich and diverse because of the different people that live here.
• Ellis Island had the best beaches.
• The Statue of Liberty scared people when they first saw it.

7.) Read this sentence from the passage. Translators did what they could to help the inspectors and *newcomers* understand one another. Which word best replaces the word "newcomers" in the sentence?

• kimonos
• cards
• inspectors
• immigrants

8.) What is the correct way to divide the word "international" into syllables?

• inter/national
• in/ternatio/nal
• int/ern/at/ional
• in/ter/na/tion/al

9.) What is the correct way to divide the word "together" into syllables?

• tog/ether
• tog/eth/er
• to/gether
• to/geth/er

10.) Based on the suffix -est, what does the word "busiest" mean on this page?

• more busy
• not very busy
• business
• the most busy