Multiple choice

"The Jungle" was

  1. A book about slavery in the 1900s

  2. For explorers going to the rain forest

  3. A book written about the meat packing industry

  4. Burned by the president in 1890
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Explanation

Upton Sinclair's novel 'The Jungle' exposed the unsanitary and dangerous conditions of the meatpacking industry in Chicago. Its publication led directly to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

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