The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 38

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"[But] somewhere between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 citizens of [the United States]… [are] poor… It is a blow to reform and the political hopes of the poor that the middle class no longer understands that poverty exists… What shall we tell the American poor?...Shall we say to them that they are better off than the Indian poor? That is one answer,but it is heartless…The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can now be abolished."
Michael Harrington,The Other America,1962
-Which of the following stands in most direct contrast to the message of this passage?

• A) Perceptions of America's economic well-being following World War II
• B) The rise of liberalism in the 1960s
• C) The challenges faced by civil rights activists
• D) Images advanced by the popular media

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