The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 36

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"As…Negroes fought for entry into American society,[the Beats] passively withdrew from the surrounding nation… [they] listened to poetry readings,listened to jazz,… opted for poverty,refused to be anchored down by family obligations,and developed a literary style marked by run-on,stream-of-consciousness sentences… The Beats rejected straight society. Overthrow it-its morality,its patriotism,its family structure,its capitalism,its Christianity,its taboos… Socially alienated and ideologically inarticulate,the Beats represented radicalism of the cultural rather than the political.
Daniel Flynn,A Conservative History of the American Left,2009
-Which of the following changes would the group described in the passage have most strongly opposed?

• A) Expansion of middle-class suburbs
• B) Campaigns to limit pollution
• C) The rise of equality movements for women and gays
• D) Efforts to eliminate poverty

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