The Muckrakers

Question 1

Which of these writers helped bring about the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly?

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D: Ida Tarbell

Question 2

A muckraker was a reporter who wrote

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a: about corruption and crime in industry and government.

Question 3

Which of these is an example of muckraking disguised as a work of fiction?

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C: The Octopus by Frank Norris

Question 4

What did Ida B. Wells work to end through her muckraking articles?

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D: lynching of and discrimination against African Americans

Question 5

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis exposed

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t: the harsh living conditions in New York City slums.

Question 6

Who first applied the term muckraker to journalism?

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D: President Theodore Roosevelt

Question 7

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T: The public began to take action by setting up committees and supporting reform candidates.

Question 8

How did Ida Tarbell help end the Standard Oil monopoly?

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C: She wrote a series of articles exposing the corruption of Standard Oil.

Question 9

President Roosevelt’s call to action upon reading Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is best described as

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D: movement to ensure sanitary conditions in meat-packing plants by signing new legislation

Question 10

Which aspect of Upton Sinclair’s life best explains his reasons for writing The Jungle?

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D: his socialist politics

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