Answer:
According to paragraph 3, which of the following selections best describes the narrator's hometown as it compares to the rest of Depression-era America?
I suppose that futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young.
The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us, for the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed.
I don't know what it was that we
were waiting for; certainly not for the prosperity that was “just around the corner,” for those were white folks’ words, which we never believed.