The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 18

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
-Conservative critics of the American government's reaction to the issues described in the passage

• A) argued against the culture of conformity.
• B) called the efforts a misuse of national authority.
• C) charged that too little was done to transform economic realities.
• D) called for increased measures for conservation.

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Definitions:

Progressive Relaxation

A technique for reducing stress and anxiety by tensing and then relaxing each muscle group in the body sequentially.

Exposure Therapy

A psychological treatment that involves confronting fears and anxieties by gradual, controlled exposure to the objects, activities, or situations that cause them.

Systematic Desensitization

A behavioral therapy technique used to help individuals overcome phobias and anxiety disorders by gradually exposing them to the anxiety source while teaching them relaxation techniques.

Aversive Conditioning

is a form of behavioral training where a negative stimulus is paired with an undesirable behavior in order to reduce or eliminate that behavior.