Hope and Tears: Ellis Island Voices Test

Which word means looked for?

• sought

• approved

• toured

• declined

A disease is contagious if it

• makes you very sick.

• lasts a long time.

• spreads from person to person.

• can be cured with medicine or surgery.

What is a synonym for mental in this sentence? Her mental ability helped her become very successful.

• strength

• speaking

• athletic

• thinking

What is a port?

• the part of a plane where the engines are

• a place where ships can dock

• the back seat of a car or truck

• a big sail on a boat

When you do inspections, you

• share information with others.

• make close examinations.

• keep something a secret.

• spend as little money as possible.

How is Ellis Island used today?

• as a hospital

• for deportation

• for immigration

• as a museum

Which sentence from the selection best supports your answer for Part A?

• Doctors 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 1920s until 1954, the main work of Ellis Island was deportation, sending undesirable immigrants back home.

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

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

• A) people from the north of Italy liked to wear boots.

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

• C) many immigrants were unfamiliar with the food she made.

• D) 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 from 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.