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Question 1

The Emergency Relief Division of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
 
  a. was created over Hoover's veto.
  b. provided direct cash payments to needy individuals.
  c. loaned small sums to states to be spent on relief.
  d. created the modern welfare state.

Question 2

Penny auctions were
 
  a. sales events in which no item cost more than a penny.
  b. numismatic conventions that gained new importance at a time when cash was short.
  c. auctions in which a unified community would buy foreclosed farm properties from neighbors at agreed-on low prices in order to return them to the distressed owner.
  d. a nickname for crowds of beggars on the street all requesting pennies.



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