The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 20

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 issues described in the passage took place among an atmosphere of

• A) repressed freedom of speech.
• B) great social and cultural upheaval.
• C) popular support for the expansion of the power of the federal government.
• D) condemnation of what some saw as an immoral foreign policy.

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