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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. According to the article, what started the Great Depression?

a. the imbalance of wealth around the world
b. foreigners refusing to buy American goods
c. unequal distribution of wealth between the rich and the middle-class
d. unemployment rates

2. What information is given first in the article?
a. Radios and cars bought with credit had to be returned.
b. The thriving industries that had been connected with the automobile and

radio industries started falling apart.
c. The rich had practically stopped lending money to foreign countries.
d. Imbalance of wealth created an unstable economy.

3. Why were the once thriving automobile and radio industries falling
apart?
a. The rich stopped spending money on luxury items.
b. No one could afford anything.

c. The middle-class and the poor stopped buying things with installment
credit.
d. all of the above

4. What does the article call the Great Depression?
a. the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history
b. the extensive stock market speculation
c. an equal distribution of wealth

d. a world-wide market crash

5. What made the American economy crumble in the late 1920s?
a. an uneven balance of wealth

b. the poor automobile and radio sales
c. cheap European goods being sold in America
d. none of the above

6. Which sentence uses the word triggered in the same way it is used in
the article?
a. The plague triggered hunger and famine throughout the country.
b. The boy accidently pulled the trigger.

c. Keith triggered the gun at the target.
d. both b and c

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