Which sentence is punctuated correctly? a. the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, said franklin delano roosevelt. b. wait here just a minute, "my mother told us." c. "it seems, keith said, that they have found their missing dog." d. "we won't attempt," explained the guide, "to reach the summit of the mountain today."

The great depression, which lasted throughout the 1930s in the united states, affected many people, and it had a devastating impact on an entire subset of the u.s. population. modernist writer john steinbeck wrote about the toll the depression took on these families, many of whom were forced to leave their farms and find other sources of income.