PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?


A)“It was a period when they reveled in the high jinks of what the period’s historian Nathan Miller called an ‘era of wonderful nonsense’” ( Paragraph 1)

B)“In no mood to worry whether the good times will last, Americans were happily spending money they had had to save because of wartime shortages” ( Paragraph 7)

C)“‘The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists,’ he complained. ‘They’re too d*mn greedy.’” ( Paragraph 18)

D)“Hoover tried to stymie the fall by increasing public works spending to $434 million – an enormous sum for the period” ( Paragraph 21)