"How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another." ?
Correct answer: C. Fear of global nuclear war
- A. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system
- B. Fear of the AIDs crisis
- C. Fear of global nuclear war
- D. Fear of the economic Great Depression
Explanation
These lines express the constant anxiety of the nuclear age, when people feared that global nuclear conflict could occur at any moment. The repeated question-and-answer pattern conveys how such fear had become part of ordinary daily life.
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