WorksheetsComprehension Hope and Tears Ellis Island
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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.
