Which of these statements about literature in the 1950s is correct?
A) Novelists were primarily concerned with societal problems such as poverty, racism, and labor exploitation.
B) Almost no literature of lasting value was written during this complacent, conformist decade.
C) Most 1950s literature celebrated America's good life of cars, televisions, and suburban homes.
D) Southern, black, and Jewish writers produced much of the decade's most outstanding literature.
E) The decade saw the emergence of lesbian and gay fiction as an acceptable and commercially successful genre.
D
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A) religion. B) the individual. C) political party. D) technology. E) Both A and C are correct.
In President Andrew Johnson's view, the Freedmen's Bureau was
a. a flawed but necessary agency. b. acceptable only because it also helped poor whites. c. a tolerable compromise with the radical Congress. d. a potential source of Republican patronage jobs. e. a meddlesome federal agency in the South that should be killed.
The Bantu originally came from around
A. the Swahili area. B. far southern Africa. C. Egypt. D. modern-day Nigeria. E. modern-day Algeria.
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A) 800,000 B) 5,000 C) 10,000 D) 100,000