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Answer 1

Which viewpoint in the narrative passage is included in the expository passage?



immigrant experience in America in the early twentieth century



making America great through economic development



the power struggle between wealthy owners and the general public

Answer 2

The Meat Industry



Passage 1
From Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, 1906.

The people of Chicago saw the government inspectors in Packingtown, and they all took that to mean that they were protected from diseased meat. They did not understand that these hundred and sixty-three inspectors had been appointed at the request of the meat packers, and that they were paid by the United States government to certify that all the diseased meat was kept in the state. Meat inspectors made sure that meat sold out of state or country was safe. Diseased meat was supposed to be disposed of.

But a physician made the discovery that the carcasses of steers which had been condemned as tubercular by the government inspectors were carted away to be sold in the city. He insisted that these carcasses be treated with an injection of kerosene—and was ordered to resign the same week! So indignant were the meat packers over this intrusion that they compelled the mayor to abolish the whole bureau of inspection. Since then there has not been even a pretense of any interference with the graft. There was said to be two thousand dollars a week hush money from the tubercular steers alone; and as much again from the hogs which had died of cholera on the trains, and which you might see any day being loaded into boxcars and hauled away to Indiana, where they made a fancy grade of lard.

Jurgis heard of these things little by little from other workers. It seemed as if every time you met a person from a new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes. There was, for instance, a Lithuanian who was a cattle butcher for the plant where Marija had worked, which killed meat for canning only; his descriptions of the animals which came to his place were hellish. It seemed that they searched the country for old and crippled and diseased cattle to be canned. There were cattle that had been fed refuse and had become covered with boils. It was stuff such as this that made the "embalmed beef" that had killed several times as many United States soldiers as did bullets in the Spanish-American war.

Passage 2
Food Safety in America: The Beginning

At the beginning of the twentieth century, no federal laws existed to ensure the safety and quality of America's food. State laws existed but were poorly enforced. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who headed the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture, led the fight for laws that would protect the public. His efforts were blocked by the powerful "Beef Trust," which lobbied on behalf of the meatpacking industry.

A series of events aroused public concern and indignation, beginning with the "embalmed beef" scandal. During the Spanish-American War (1898), American soldiers were sickened by canned meat. The contaminated beef caused food poisoning, typhoid fever, and dysentery; thousands of soldiers died as a result. A school of journalists emerged after the First World War whose sensational tactics and commitment to social reform earned them the name "muckrakers." Muckrakers like Samuel Hopkins alerted the public to fraudulent practices in the making and marketing of patented medicines. Charles Edward Russell undermined the authority of the Beef Trust with his report on greed and corruption in the beef industry. Most influential was Upton Sinclair's The Jungle—a horrifying account of the Chicago meatpacking industry. Published in 1906, the book shocked the public and galvanized it behind reform. Sinclair's intended purpose was to expose the plight of the immigrant who suffered cruelly at the hands of an unscrupulous and unregulated industry. He wrote about Jurgis, a fictional Lithuanian immigrant who faces starvation, injury, and degradation as a worker in the meat industry. But the public seized on Sinclair's grotesque descriptions of meat production. Sinclair wrote, "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident hit it in the stomach."
In response to the book, President Roosevelt sent government officials to Chicago. They submitted a report that confirmed the truth behind Sinclair's fiction. Roosevelt warned that the report's findings were so shocking that its publication would be "well nigh ruinous to our export trade in beef." With the public behind him and the damning report in his hand, Roosevelt was able to override the influence of the Beef Trust and convince Congress to act. In 1906, both a Meat Inspection Act and a Pure Food and Drug Act were passed within six months of The Jungle's publication.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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