The Beat Generation Can Be Described in All of the Following

question 65

Multiple Choice

The Beat Generation can be described in all of the following ways EXCEPT

• A) they formed the protest culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
• B) they promoted interest in bebop jazz and Eastern religious mysticism.
• C) in founding their own movement, the hippies later rejected many of the Beat notions.
• D) they embraced sexual liberation.
• E) their name came from the term "beatnik," meant as a Cold War insult.

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