Read this excerpt from Immigrant Kids by Russell
Freedman.
Which detail best supports the idea that being
interviewed at Ellis Island was very stressful for the
immigrants?
Those who failed to get past both doctors had to undergo
a more thorough medical exam. The others moved on to
the registration clerk, who questioned them with the aid of
an interpreter: What is your name? Your nationality? Your
occupation? Can you read and write? Have you ever been
in prison? How much money do you have with you?
Where are you going?
Immigrants sometimes were exhausted and hungry
after the voyage.
Some immigrants got so nervous that they couldn't
answer the questions.
Clerks at Ellis Island asked if immigrants could read and
write.
The registration clerk used an interpreter to question
immigrants.
Some immigrants were so flustered that they could not
answer. They were allowed to sit and rest and try again.