Question

This photo, titled "Migrant Mother,” was taken during the Great Depression.

A portrait of Florence Thompson and three of her children.

Now, read a quotation by Dorothea Lange about the photo from Years of Dust.

I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. . . . I did not ask her name or history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children had killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.

The quotation is by

the person who took the photo.
the woman who appears in the photo.
the daughter of the woman in the photo.
the official who hired the photographer.

Answer 1

The person who took the photo is correct.
Let's go over each answer choice with evidence from the passage.

The woman who appears in the photo is incorrect because in the beginning of the passage itself it says, `I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, ...` which refers to the photographer wasn't the mother.

The daughter of the woman in the photo is also incorrect since there would have been a connection. The quotation is by Dorothea Lange, and from the passage, she would refer her as her mother, but she didn't since she doesn't know who she was. `...I did not ask her name or history.`

The official who hired the photographer is also incorrect, since in the beginning of the paragraph itself, `I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet.` and not refering any official that instructed Dorothea to take the picture.