Question 2 • * SY2025-26 - 1001010-M/J Language Arts 1 Sem 1 CR
Read Edward Corsi’s quotation from the book Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman.Edward Corsi, who later became United States Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907:"Giuseppe and I held tightly to Stepfather’s hands, while Liberta and Helvetia clung to Mother. Passengers all about us were crowding against the rail. Jabbered conversations, sharp cries, laughs and cheers – a steadily rising din filled the air. Mothers and fathers lifted up babies so that they too could see, off to the left, the Statue of Liberty."
Answer
A
It adds credibility because it comes from a worker on the ship who sailed past the Statue of Liberty.
B
It adds credibility because it comes from an immigrant who actually shares his memories of seeing the Statue of Liberty.
C
It adds credibility because it comes from a historian who studied immigrants and the Statue of Liberty.
D
It adds credibility because it comes from a journalist who researched the Statue of Liberty.
Explanation
Edward Corsi describes seeing the Statue of Liberty when he arrived in New York as a ten-year-old immigrant. His first-person memory provides an eyewitness account, which makes the quotation credible evidence of what the arrival felt like. Choice B is correct because Corsi was an immigrant who personally shared his memories of seeing the statue.
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