All the people and boarding the ship, it was all a brand new experience. We left Rotterdam, we set sail and about a half 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 a half hour before we saw the Statue of Liberty.

—"Morris Remembers the Steamship,"
Ellis Island Oral History Project,
National Park Service: Ellis Island

What question might you ask to have a better understanding of this passage?

Where does the speaker come from?
What was the name of the speaker’s sister?
How did the speaker feel during the voyage?
What did they eat on the ship?