Question

“Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California:” What do the following lines from paragraph 3 mainly reveal about the mother and children?
“She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.”
Question 20 options:

a)

The mother and children are not very resourceful or skilled at farming.

b)

The mother and children have been living as pea pickers for many years.

c)

The mother and children are barely able to survive in their current situation.

d)

The mother and children prefer a simple diet consisting of what is available.

Answer 1

Answer:

C

Explanation:

Nobody sells the tires from their (likely) only way of getting around. They are poor. She's 32 and things are not looking that bright for her. She's scrounging to keep her family fed.

I don't get the impression that she works. She's living off the land. I wouldn't pick b unless you know more of the story. So unless you know differently, B is not the answer.

It can't be D. She's not choosing to live the way she does. It's forced on her.

I don't get the impression she farms.

I think your answer is C