"We were so long on the water that we began to think we should
never get to America.
We were all landed on an island and the bosses there said that
Francisco and I must go back because we had not enough money, but
a man named Bartolo came up an told them that . . . he was our uncle
and would take care of us. . . . We came to Brooklyn to a wooden
house on Adams Street that was full of Italians from Naples. Bartolo
had a room on the third floor and there were fifteen men in the room,
all boarding with Bartolo."
-Two brothers arrive in America from Italy in the 1870s
The description in this passage indicates the _____ sometimes
encountered by immigrants on arrival in the United States.
a. strangeness and danger c. anger and surprise
b. difficulties and confusion d. boredom and fatigue
