Author Question: In the 1960s, the youth counterculture A. attempted to differentiate itself from the stereotype ... (Read 76 times)

fnuegbu · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The 1969 Woodstock music festival was

A. formed to help heal the cultural divisions within American society.

B. designed to make amends for the events of Altamont four months earlier.

C. organized as a rally in protest to the Vietnam War.

D. a powerful symbol of the ideals of the counterculture philosophy.

E. held to establish cooperatives based on the principles of communal living.

Question 2

In the 1960s, the radical group known as Weathermen

A. expressed their ideas in a manifesto known as the Port Huron Statement.

B. targeted SDS meetings as sites of un-American activity.

C. were involved in college bombings that claimed several lives.

D. seized administration offices at Columbia University.

E. reflected the attitudes of a majority of college students at major universities.

Question 3

Throughout the late 1960s,

A. deferments for the military draft increased.

B. None of these answers is correct.

C. opposition in the United States to the Vietnam War intensified.

D. no American refused induction; instead, thousands fled to Canada and Sweden.

E. both deferments for the military draft increased, and opposition in the United States to the Vietnam War intensified.

Question 4

In the 1960s, the youth counterculture

A. attempted to differentiate itself from the stereotype of the hippie.

B. sought to overthrow the U.S. government through an armed revolution.

C. was really little more than a change in clothing styles.

D. rejected the complaints of the beats of the 1950s.

E. was openly scornful of the values and conventions of American middle-class society.