The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 12

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
-The methods of the Beats,as described in the passage,demonstrate

• A) the role of literature and the arts in movements for change.
• B) the challenge of communicating with the generation of the 1960s.
• C) the limitations of political reform movements in the Cold War.
• D) the decline of nonviolent protest as a means for reform.

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