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Making Changes: Central Ideas in Immigrant Kids Answers

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What is the central idea of this passage?

A
Employers knew when inspections would happen.
B
Employers hid the children when the inspector came.
C
Employers made the children work seven days a week.
D
Employers often treated immigrant children terribly.
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Which detail from Russell Freedman’s Immigrant Kids best supports this central idea? "No matter where they were from, immigrants worked hard to make a new life in the United States.”

A
“Five men and a woman, two young girls, not fifteen, and a boy who says unasked that he is fifteen, and lies in saying it, are at the machines sewing knickerbockers.”
B
“The endless, monotonous rows of tenement buildings that shut out the sky.”
C
“It was Mrs. Accurso who put her arm comfortingly about my mother's shoulder and led her away from the party and into the hall and showed her the water faucet.”
D
“Playgrounds were nonexistent, toilets were in the yard, and gymnasiums were an unheard-of luxury.”

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