Question

1. Who exposed the plight of the urban poor in 1889's "How the Other Half Lives"?
A) Ida Tarbell
B) Jacob Riis
C) Lincoln Stephens
D) Theodore Roosevelt


2. Who wrote "The History of Standard Oil" and exposed the corruption of "big business"?
A) Jacob Riis
B) Ida Tarbell
C) Upton Sinclair
D) Lincoln Stephens


3. Which Upton Sinclair muckraking masterpiece is credited with spurring the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Responses
A) The Jungle
B) Standard Oil
C) Shame of the Cities
D) How the Other Half Lives

Answer 1

1. B) Jacob Riis

2. B) Ida Tarbell

3. A) The Jungle