Part A According to “The Writing on the Wall,” how did the men who wrote poems on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station feel about who and what they had left behind them in China? A. They were glad to have severed ties to their former lives. B. They were eager to return to China and to their previous situations. C. They were saddened by memories of their lives in China. D. They were cheered by knowing that people in China were counting on them. Part B Which quotation from “The Writing on the Wall” best supports the answer to Part A? A. Imagine you were one of the most educated men in your village, the man on whom several families had pinned their hopes. B. "Why not let them deport you back to China? / You will find some work and endure to earn a couple of meals." C. If an immigrant's papers were in order, they could go straight away into their new lives in America. D. "Thinking of affairs back home, / Unconscious tears wet my lapel."