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The Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture:
 
  A. hired filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to make a film about crop dusting.
  B. encouraged Future Farmers of America to photograph activities related to dairy farming and everyday rural life.
  C. owned controlling shares of the Eastman Kodak Company in 1929.
  D. sponsored photography classes in high schools across the country.
  E. paid photographers to document the Great Depression.

Question 2

Dada collage artist Hannah Hch used found photographs to express:
 
  A. artistic composition.
  B. the overwhelming experience of the mechanized city.
  C. disgust with a civilization that allowed the slaughter of World War I.
  D. All of these.
  E. None of these answers are correct.



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Answer to Question 1

E
The FSA subsidized photographers and sent them out to record conditions across the nation to document what happened during the Great Depression.

Answer to Question 2

D
Hch belonged to the Dadaist movement, which was formed as a reaction to the unprecedented slaughter of World War I.



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