Soon enough, it was Bly who was deemed crazy. The matron of the house enlisted a few cops to escort Bly to the Essex Market Police Courtroom, where an impatient judge named Duffy pronounced her insane and ordered her to the famed insane ward at Bellevue Hospital, the city’s largest charitable hospital. A few days later, she boarded a ferry boat filled stem to stern with unwashed and uncomprehending women for Blackwell’s Island, “an insane place,” one ambulance driver told her, “where you’ll never get out of.”

Question

Use the excerpt from the “How Nellie Bly went undercover to expose abuse of the mentally ill” article to answer the question.

Which excerpt supports the idea that the abuses that went on in the asylum at Blackwell Island were well known to the public?

(1 point)
Responses

an impatient judge named Duffy pronounced her insane and ordered her to the famed insane ward at Bellevue Hospital
an impatient judge named Duffy pronounced her insane and ordered her to the famed insane ward at Bellevue Hospital

“. . . an insane place,” one ambulance driver told her, “where you’ll never get out of”
“. . . an insane place,” one ambulance driver told her, “where you’ll never get out of”

The matron of the house enlisted a few cops to escort Bly to the Essex Market Police Courtroom
The matron of the house enlisted a few cops to escort Bly to the Essex Market Police Courtroom

Soon enough, it was Bly who was deemed crazy

Answer 1

The excerpt that supports the idea that the abuses that went on in the asylum at Blackwell Island were well known to the public is:

“. . . an insane place,” one ambulance driver told her, “where you’ll never get out of.”

This statement suggests that there was a general awareness of the conditions and the hopelessness associated with the asylum.