Ellis Island National Monument Online: Cause-and-Effect Structure Quiz

Which sentence from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" is written using a cause-and-effect text structure?

Her brother placed a housework-wanted ad in a local paper, and Katherine was soon hired as a governess with a wealthy family.

Which sentence from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" contains both a cause and an effect?

In 1925, Katherine sent for her parents, Anton and Elena Stollmayer, who longed to see their only children.

Which sentence from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" is written using a sequence text structure?

After a 12-day voyage to New York she traveled to Pittsburgh by train.

Which sentence from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" is written using a compare-and-contrast text structure?

As with the Kudrna family, war and other uncontrollable events often divided family members between their home country and America.

Based on the information in "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" which statement is accurate?

The rise of the silk industry caused the village of Mtein, Lebanon, to flourish in the eighteenth century.

According to "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" what happened as a result of immigrants having a mild physical illness upon their arrival in America?

They were held at Ellis Island's hospital complex.

Immigration officials grouped Chinese herbalists--medical practitioners who use different mixtures of herbs to prevent and treat various ailments--with merchants, and thus they were allowed entry

Which phrase signals a cause-and-effect relationship? and thus

Pietro and Rosa Sicurella lived with their nine children in Adrano, Sicily prior to coming to the United States. Pietro and Rosa's oldest son, Giuseppe, immigrated in 1903 to study art. His brother Salvatore followed in 1908 and their siblings Antonio, Maria Anna, and Angelina joined them in 1913. When Giuseppe died in 1916, the Sicurella siblings living in New York decided not to return to Sicily--the rest of the family joined them after World War I. Giuseppe D'Amico, Concetta Sicurella's husband, immigrated with his wife's family, leaving his own family behind in Sicily. The Sicurella family typified the kinds of professions many Italian immigrants undertook once they came to America in the early 1900s. As Concetta Sicurella's daughter, Teresa (the donor of the Sicurella artifacts), recalls: "Living in Manhattan in the early 1920s had some advantages. The street may not have been paved in gold, but jobs were readily available to immigrants who had skills . . . "

Which sentence from this excerpt reflects a compare-and-contrast text structure? The Sicurella family typified the kinds of professions many Italian immigrants undertook once they came to America in the early 1900s.

After working for nine years peddling dry goods in Virginia, Diab returned to Lebanon where he married Mary Ramah and had two children.

Which statement best describes the text structure of this sentence and explains why it is used? A sequence text structure is used to describe an order of events in Diab Thomas's life.

Shortly after his arrival in America he found work on a Michigan farm. In a matter of months, he was able to send for three of his sisters and one brother, all of whom became ill during their voyage and recuperated in Ellis Island's contagious disease hospital. Eventually, the entire Hayter family, except the oldest son, settled in America.

Which statement best identifies the text structure of this excerpt? This excerpt mainly reflects a sequence text structure.

Read the excerpt from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears." Giuseppe D'Amico (Teresa's father) "had a hard time finding a job in America. He was an electrician by trade, but he couldn't get a job in Manhattan because the electricians were already unionized."

Which statement correctly identifies the cause-and-effect relationship? The cause is electricians being unionized, and the effect is Giuseppe D'Amico having a hard time finding a job.

Which word signals a sequence text structure?

finally

According to "Island of Hope, Island of Tears," hearing stories about California caused Tong Ly Jue to

leave Canton, China.

In the passage "Island of Hope, Island of Tears" which family's story is written mostly using a sequence text structure?

the Stollmayer family