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Here's your shmoop du jour... If you're not too greatly depressed by this

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passage, hit pause and give it a quick review...

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Where would be the BEST place to go for information about the troubles that farmers faced during

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the Great Depression?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Ok, what is this question asking?

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Actually, it's not really asking us to pull an answer from the passage itself...

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...instead, it wants us to think things through logically.

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Where WOULD we go to find information about farmers' troubles during the Depression?

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Well, we could assemble a litany of facts and figures by opening an encyclopedia...

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...visiting a website about the Roaring Twenties...

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...or perusing an academic journal.

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But if we really want to get down to the nitty-gritty, and hear about these farmers' trials and tribulations...

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...we should go straight to the horse's mouth.

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Since we can't interview any of those farmers ourselves...

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...it seems that interviews that were conducted with them at the time would be the next best

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thing. Answer... B

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As in, "Boy, I'm glad I didn't live in those times..."

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