This is from THE GREAT DEPRESSION by Mike Kubic, (Common lit) PART A: Which TWO of the following statements best express the central ideas of the text? A. Unstable stock market bubbles can be one of the most dangeroys threats to a country's economy. B. Because of his inability to prevent the Great Depression, President Hoover is broadly considered an ineffective president. C. The Great Depression was one of the greatest economic crises in American histort and had far-reaching affects, even beyond U. S borders. D. The Great Depression severely impacted the daily lives of all Americans, except the upper class who went on largely unscathed. E. FRD's reforms helped bring about the end of the Great Depression and continue to shape American economic policies today. F. Heavy federal involvement in the economy-as seen in the New Deal-is crucial to continued economic growth.

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .