Question 1
The growth of the Woodstock Generation in the 1960s revealed that __________.
A) many Americans were turning toward socialism
B) there was no connection between social dissent and the counterculture
C) hippies were usually from the poorest segments of American society
D) a feeling of alienation existed within American society
Question 2
Millions of young people in the second half of the 1960s expressed their alienation from American society by sampling drugs or chasing the rainbow of a youth culture; this is referred to as __________.
A) the yuppie culture
B) the counterculture
C) consumerism
D) the drug culture
Question 3
The Model Cities Program __________.
A) rejected the philosophy of self-help
B) was not supported by the New Left
C) discouraged grass-roots activism
D) encouraged community involvement in urban planning
Question 4
The majority of the draftees and enlistees for military service in Vietnam __________.
A) were college students
B) came from the Lower South
C) averaged about 25 years of age
D) were from working-class families
Question 5
American involvement in Vietnam peaked in __________.
A) 1963
B) 1965
C) 1969
D) 1973
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