The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 52

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"Any evidence to the contrary notwithstanding,national prohibition rapidly acquired an image,not as a law which significantly reduced the use of alcoholic beverages,but rather as a law that was widely flouted… Even given a 60 percent drop in total national alcohol consumption,a considerable amount of imbibing still took place.Yet the image also derived in part from the unusually visible character of those prohibition violations which did occur… Most drinking took place… in urban areas where practically any activity was more likely to be witnessed… The fact that the upper classes were doing much of the imbibing further heightened its visibility."
David E.Kyvig,Repealing National Prohibition,1979
-The motivation for the policy,the effects of which are described in the passage,can best be explained by

• A) the desire of groups of reformers to address social problems associated with urban living.
• B) the efforts of conservationists to prevent the growth of business interests.
• C) the rise of activist efforts to increase the role of government in the economic system.
• D) the efforts of the public to demand increased governmental efforts at moral reform.

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