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Works of Upton Sinclair: Essay Questions and Bibliography

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Sinclair, Upton

Sinclair, Upton
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Essay Questions and Bibliography

Essay Questions and Model Answers

1. In what ways is The Jungle regarded as part of the muckraking movement
in American history? To what extent does the novel's "muckraking" explain its
immediate and long-range success?

Answer. The Jungle actually originated as a muckraking project and was
frankly offered as such both in the version serialized in the Socialist Appeal
(1905) and in the commercial book edition (1906).

Muckrakers were a group of writers who investigated abuses in business
and politics and reported ...

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