Which question might a reader ask to get a better understanding of what Catherine Gaetano Gallippi witnessed on Ellis
Island as described in the "Ellis Island Oral History Project" excerpt?
A) Why was the young woman she saw crying?
B)Did the Ellis Island workers cut Catherine Gaetano Gallippi's hair?
C) Why was the young woman's hair braided?
D) What were the Ellis Island workers looking for in the immigrants' hair?
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What were the Ellis Island workers looking for in the immigrants' hair?

Option D.

Explanation:

The story "Ellis Island Oral History Project" is  story which talks about events in the years 1890s to 1950s and it is about about the dedication of first hand recollections of immigrants who passed through the Ellis Island immigration station between 1892 and 1954.

Even after many years this project has increased about the passing of the immigrants from the stations which were formed at the Ellis island.

the correct answer is (a); the angles, saxons, jutes, picts, and celts

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source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen