Colleges and universities must be prepared to cater to the needs of a new crop of middle-aged students. Classes should be structured to help older students catch up on developments in their fields that have come about since they put on business attire. Financial aid programs may have to be arranged for those individuals who arrive on campus not from a dorm, but from a suburban home.

#11 Which of the following mean the same as jaded?

a. Immoral
b. Faded
c. Worn-out
d. Temporary
e. Refreshed
f. Superficial

#10 Catering to someone’s needs would most likely have the effect of:
a. Satisfying that person
b. Antagonizing that person
c. Alienating that person
d. Distracting that person

The Jazz Age of the 1920s carried the United States on a spiral of musical madness and fleeting pleasures. By 1925 the bluesy music of the inner city and the deep South had worked its magic and taken elegant Fifth Avenue by storm. Society matrons were hiring working-class kids to teach them how to do the latest dance craze, the Charleston. National morals were dipping, swaying, and falling, according to the staunch moralists who looked at the human condition, such as it was, and concluded that this was a superficial and “joyless industrial civilization attempting to arouse its fatigue poisoned minds and its drudgery jaded bodies.”