Question 9Feature“In the mass movement into suburban areas a new kind of community was produced, which caricatured both the historic city and the archetypal suburban refuge: a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless pre-fabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold, manufactured in the central metropolis. Thus the ultimate effect of the suburban escape in our time is, ironically, a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible.”Lewis Mumford, historian, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, 1961QuestionMumford’s argument in the excerpt does not account for which of the following historical factors that most directly explains the rise of the suburbs in the United States?ResponsesGrowth of public transportation in most major urban areasGrowth of public transportation in most major urban areasIncreased access to higher education opportunitiesIncreased access to higher education opportunitiesThe government’s recognition of labor unions in many industriesThe government’s recognition of labor unions in many industriesThe necessity of having an automobile to travel to work