1. (08.06 MC) Read the controlling idea.
The Great Depression made it difficult for citizens to meet their basic needs.
Which best supports the controlling idea? (2 points)
A. The crash destroyed the public's confidence in Wall Street markets.
B. In October of 1929, the value of stocks fell dramatically.
C. People lost their homes, and they struggled to purchase food in order to survive.
D. Bank failures, droughts, and consumer debts also contributed to the Great Depression.

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Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

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