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Which of these writers helped bring about the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly? |
Ida Tarbell |
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A muckraker was a reporter who wrote |
about corruption and crime in industry and government. |
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Which of these is an example of muckraking disguised as a work of fiction? |
The Octopus by Frank Norris |
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Which of these was a corrupt business practice that Frank Norris exposed in The Octopus? |
railroad companies selling land to farmers and secretly keeping legal ownership of the land |
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Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives shocked the American public with its use of |
powerful photographs depicting conditions in city slums. |
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In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis exposed |
the harsh living conditions in New York City slums |
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How did Ida Tarbell help end the Standard Oil monopoly? |
She wrote a series of articles exposing the corruption of Standard Oil. |
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Which aspect of Upton Sinclair’s life best explains his reasons for writing The Jungle? |
his socialist politics |
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