What Did the Experiences of Late 1960s Communes Demonstrate

question 14

Multiple Choice

What did the experiences of late 1960s communes demonstrate?

• A) Attempting to go against the Establishment leads mainly to drugs, venereal disease, and crime.
• B) Most Americans would have accepted the communal ethic if the news media had portrayed it favorably.
• C) Countercultures in the United States never can succeed or gain much following because of the power of the American ideology of family and sharing.
• D) Groups that try to live a life of sharing closer to nature on rural communes will inevitably turn an urban neighborhood into an overcrowded, over-commercialized slum.
• E) They were, at best, short-lived.

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