Read the passage from Immigrant Kids by Russell
Freedman
According the passage, some immigrants were allowed
to sit and rest before taking the exams again. How does
the quotation from Angelo Pellegrini develop this topic?
Some immigrants were so flustered that they could not
answer. They were allowed to sit and rest and try again.
About one immigrant out of every five or six was
detained for additional examinations or questioning.
The writer Angelo Pellegrini has recalled his own family's
detention at Ellis Island:
It provides a firsthand account from an immigrant
who felt "this terrible anxiety that one of us might be
rejected."
O It provides a firsthand account from an immigrant
whose "eyes were absolutely bloodshot."
O It provides a firsthand account from an immigrant
whose "sister was indeed momentarily rejected; she
had been so ill."
It provides a firsthand account from an immigrant
whose sister was given "a few hours' rest and a little
bit to eat."
We lived there for three days - Mother and we five
children, the youngest of whom was three years
old. Because of the rigorous physical examination
that we had to submit to, particularly of the eyes,
there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might
be rejected. And if one of us was, what would the
rest of the family do? My sister was indeed