*GIVING BRAINLIEST*

EXCERPT:
Morris Remembers the Steamship

When we got on the Rotterdam, we had a field day. One, I was never on ship before and it was absolutely, I was awed by it. It was overwhelming. All the people and boarding the ship, it was all a brand new experience. We left Rotterdam, we set sail and about half an hour after the ship started my sister got very sea sick. It took us fourteen days to cross the Atlantic and in the entire crossing, she was in steerage, and the only time she came up for a breath of fresh air was just about half hour before we saw the Statue of Liberty. Now the experience of the ship, being young was an adventure in that particular situation, because my brother and I, we would sneak aboard, we were always chased. And we saw some people who traveled maybe in first or second class and we looked upon them as royalty, but we were confined primarily to steerage.

Steerage was one huge place. It was the lowest deck. The stench, it was the summer, in August, the humidity, the heat, having no air-conditioning, having cooling facilities, it was very hot, compounded by the fact that there must have been anywhere from 2 to 300 people in that huge carnivores area. The body smells, the body odors, the lack of sanitation, The lack of any kind of facilities, washing, there is no such thing as washing or bathing. The stench, the vermin, it was rat infested. But, being children, I guess, it had its advantages, in this case because we were always try to get out of there. We tried to go, get out of the steerage, get out of our babble voices, get out of the heat and stench and get on the main deck. We all were permitted to stay there a little while but we were constantly chased. But the crossing went for us, for me in particular, went very quickly.

When should the reader first stop and ask a question when reading “ Morris Remembers the Steamship” in the “Ellis Island Oral History Project” excerpt, and which question should the reader ask to understand Morris’s voyage?

O A reader should stop after the first sentence and ask, “What is the Rotterdam?”

O A reader should stop after the second sentence and ask, “How did the speaker feel about being on the ship?”

O A reader should stop after the second sentence and ask, “How did the speaker feel about being on the ship?”

O A reader should stop after the third sentence and ask, “Is the speaker traveling alone?”