Read the topic from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman. Immigrants feared the examinations at Ellis Island.

Which quotation best develops this topic?

“because of the physical examination that we had to submit to”
“she had been so ill and cried so much that her eyes were absolutely bloodshot”
“there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might be rejected”
“Mother was an indomitable spirit and finally made them understand”

In what critical way is the protagonist dynamic in "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella"?

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

In which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject