Read the excerpt from the interview with e. y. (yip) harburg.

when i lost my possessions, i found my creativity. i felt i was being born for the first time. so for me the world became beautiful.

with the crash, i realized that the greatest fantasy of all was business. the only realistic way of making a living was versifying. living off your imagination.

based on the excerpt, which best describes harburg’s view of the great depression?
he has no interest in financial success for himself.
he values artistic success over financial success for himself.
he believes most people benefited from losing their financial stability.
he regrets the fact that he gave away his money to benefit his art.

In the real world, feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. he came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. he considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” if a company habitually paid below 80 percent, feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: the cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. unfortunately, the number of bagels that disappear without being paid for has also gone up. don’t let that continue. i don’t imagine that you would teach your children to cheat, so why do it yourselves? the excerpt serves as which type of support for the authors’ argument? a claim an example a conclusion a counterclaim