Week 4 Test Answers

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Look at the graphic below.Which phrase best fits in the blank box?

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A
wasted government money
B
gave citizens government money
C
encouraged people to vote
D
supported government investigations
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Who received benefits from settlement houses in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

A
young women from wealthy families
B
immigrants who had recently come to America
C
reformers like Jacob Riis and Lincoln Steffens
D
members of the middle-class people who needed a place to live
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In the early 1800s, female reformers focused on the issue(s) of:

A
temperance only.
B
women's access to health care and health education.
C
temperance, abolition, and women's access to education.
D
women's right to vote.
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Which of the following best describes the main way that Upton Sinclair gathered research for The Jungle?

A
He hired investigators to spy on activities in a meat-packing plant.
B
He spent two years doing research in libraries all over America.
C
He went undercover as a worker in a meat-packing plant.
D
He interviewed experts in the meat-packing industry.
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Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities."My purpose was...to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride." Which of the following best describes Steffens' purpose in writing about government?

A
to encourage Americans to feel more pride in their government
B
to highlight corruption in city and state governments
C
to arouse public sympathy for government officials
D
to incite Americans into a fiery revolt against their government

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