The Muckrakers

Question 1

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

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Ida Tarbell

Question 2

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

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The Octopus by Frank Norris

Question 3

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

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lynching of and discrimination against African Americans

Question 4

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis exposed

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the harsh living conditions in New York City slums.

Question 5

Who first applied the term muckraker to journalism?

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President Theodore Roosevelt

Question 6

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

Question 7

How did Ida Tarbell help end the Standard Oil monopoly?

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

Question 8

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

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

Question 9

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

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his socialist politics

Question 10

Which of these was a corrupt business practice that Frank Norris exposed in The Octopus?

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railroad companies selling land to farmers and secretly keeping legal ownership of the land

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