According to paragraph 3, which of the following selections best describes the narrator’s hometown as it compares to the rest of Depression-era America? I suppose that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young. The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us, for the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed. I don’t know what it was that we were waiting for; certainly not for the prosperity that was “just around the corner,” for those were white folks’ words, which we never believed. Answer choices for the above question A. The people in both her hometown and the rest of America believe that things will improve. B. The people in her hometown believe in the promise of the American Dream. C. The people in the rest of America are just starting to experience the deep poverty that the people in her town have suffered through for many years. D. The Depression is the first time people in her hometown, and the rest of America, are finding themselves poor and unhappy.

The depression was the first time that the people in the rest of America are starting to experience the deep poverty that the people in her town have suffered through for many years.

According to the writer, the depression that the entire country had just started to experience has been their reality for a long time.

Even though everyone else was feeling the effect of the poverty and the pains of the depression for the first time, the people in her village had this as their everyday life.

This was the period of economic meltdown in the United States. In this period, many people were faced with hunger, poverty and some others were rendered homeless.

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C. The people in the rest of America are just starting to experience the deep poverty that the people in her town have suffered through for many years

Explanation:

According to paragraph 3, the selection that best describes the narrator's hometown as it compares to the rest of Depression-era America is (option C) The people in the rest of America are just starting to experience the deep poverty that the people in her town have suffered through for many years

From the narration, the Depression "was no new thing for them as the black workers had always been depressed"  and that the belief that prosperity was just around the corner "were white folks words" because they have not been used to it previously.