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Quiz for Document 28–1: Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Which of the following did students in the New Left organization Students for a Democratic Society see as a significant social problem?

Consumer affluence

Antilabor sentiment

Communist conspirators

Excessive government intervention

2. Which two features of American life decisively shaped the consciousness of members of the Students for a Democratic Society?

The civil rights movement and the Cold War

Consumerism and mass media

Political conservatism and suburbanization

Growth of the middle class and rise of new technology

3. What responsibility did the Students for a Democratic Society assign to the New Left?

Creating a third major political party

Making complex issues easy to understand

Working to end the Cold War

Helping women to gain full equality