“... there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might be rejected.”
Explanation:
Angelo Pellegrini was a writer who became famous for his works about the pleasures of food, wine, community. With the rest of his family, he immigrated in 1913 from Tuscany to McCleary, Washington. He wrote a lot about the Italian immigrant experience.
The given paragraph tells us that immigrants were very anxious about arriving in America because of the exams that awaited them and could get them sent back to Europe if they were rejected. The quote that contains the same idea is the second one:<em>... there was this terrible anxiety that one of us might be rejected.</em>
