Read the passage.

as my brother and i walked out the front door for the long hike to our grandma’s store, it felt like we had stepped into an oven. heat surrounded us and warmed our skin. slowly, deliberately, we walked down the country road and allowed summer to swallow us whole.

which of the following best summarizes the passage?

a.
upon leaving for their grandmother’s store, two siblings walked down a road in the hot sun.

b.
country roads are hot in the summertime.

c.
the grandmother’s store did not have air conditioning, and it was hot.

d.
children like to visit their grandparents in the summer.

How does this quotation add credibility to freedman'sstatement that the immigrant voyages were not pleasant? read edward corsi's quotation from the book immigrantkids by russell freedman. edward corsi, who later became united statescommissioner of immigration, was a ten-year-old italianimmigrant when he sailed into new york harbor in 1907: the officers of the ship went striding up and downthe decks shouting orders and directions and drivingthe immigrants before them. scowling and gesturing, they pushed and pulled the passengers, herding usinto separate groups as though we were animals. afew moments later we came to our dock, and thelong journey was over. o it is from an actual immigrant who experienced roughtreatment by the ship's workers. it is from an actual sailor who herded the immigrants likeanimals on the decks. it is from an actual writer who wrote about a fictionalfamily immigrating to the united states. it is from an actual historian who studied the immigrationexperience at ellis island.