As I researched this question, I found out that the choices that are originally attached to it are:
A) In keeping with the social policies that had prevailed throughout the 1920s, relief efforts were slim.
B) Hoover organized a relief effort that was unprecedented in scale and scope.
C) The federal government intervened aggressively, but state and local governments did not follow suit.
D) Initial government efforts focused on providing direct relief to those Americans who had been hit hardest by the Depression.
Therefore, the answer would be the second choice wherein former US President Hoover administered relief efforts in order to cope up the effects of the depression.