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What best paraphrases the central idea of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Immigrant Kids, and then
answer the question.
The officers of the ship ... went striding up and down
the decks shouting orders and directions and driving
the immigrants before them. Scowling and gesturing,
they pushed and pulled the passengers, herding us into
separate groups as though we were animals.
O Passengers aboard the immigrant ships were often
treated poorly.
O Officers on the immigrant ships thought the
passengers were animals.
O The ship's officers got pushed, pulled, and herded
on the ships.
O Immigrant passengers went striding around and
scowling