The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 44

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
-What role would the Cold War play in the rise of the movement described in the passage?

• A) Fear of Communism would lead to increased government intervention in the economy.
• B) Concerns about subversion would lead to an increasingly homogenous mass culture.
• C) Conflicts with the Soviet Union would lead to increased involvement abroad.
• D) Worries about espionage would lead to increased restrictions on immigration.

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