The Jungle

Who wrote the book, the Jungle?

• Upton Sinclair

• John D. Rockefeller

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Jane Addams

What animals would "race about" on top of the meat in the store rooms?

• Rats

• Bats

• Snakes

• Ants

Where did the workers wash their hands?

• Water meant to be used for the sausage

• The water leaking from the ceiling

• They didn't wash their hands

• In the blood of the animals

Choose two: What did they use to make the "smoked" sausage look brown?

• Borax

• Gelatin

• Blood

• Dirt

Where did the dead rats go after they ate the poisoned bread?

• Into the hoppers with the meat

• In the trash

• Left out to scare other rats

• Thrown into the river

What was Upton Sinclair's goal when he wrote the Jungle?

• Show the horrible living and working conditions of immigrants

• To expose how unsanitary the meatpacking industry was

• To get a law passed called the Meat Inspection Act

• To get back at the meatpacking industry for firing him

How does the phrase “they use everything of the pig except the squeal” (Paragraph 1) contribute to the central ideas of the text?

• The phrase refers to the meatpacking industry’s use of the entire animal, even non-meat parts, thus contributing to the central idea of American ingenuity.

• The phrase refers to the meatpacking industry’s use of animals, even spoiled meat and non-meat parts, thus contributing to the central idea of the industry’s corrupt and unsanitary nature.

• The phrase refers to the meatpacking industry’s terrible treatment of its livestock, thus contributing to the central idea of the industry’s corrupt and cruel animal-raising practices.

• The phrase refers to the meatpacking industry’s mistreatment of its employees, taking advantage of them and leaving their only voice, thus contributing to the central idea of the employees exposing the horrors of the industry.

In what conditions did the employees work or interact with the meat?

• The employees mostly worked in ignorance of the horrible conditions of the rest of the industry.

• The employees worked in poor conditions, but this was largely due to their own inability to keep themselves and their workplaces clean.

• The employees worked in squalid conditions, working among disease and rats and lacking the facilities to even wash their hands.

• The employees worked in pretty bad conditions, working with spoiled meat, but they did not understand that these practices were hazards.

PART A: Why did the factory likely employ such questionable practices?

• Because the factory had no ethical issue in deceiving the public; they were interested in making as much money as possible

  
  

• Because there was no regulation to tell them that these were morally wrong practices.

  
  

• Because they were confident that no inspection or employee would reveal their secrets.

  
  

• Because they had no way of getting rid of the spoiled meat in an environmentally safe way.

  
  

PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

• “In the pickling of hams they had an ingenious apparatus, by which they saved time and increased the capacity of the plant....” (Paragraph 2)

  
  

• “To pump into these the packers had a second and much stronger pickle which destroyed the odor—a process known to the workers as “giving them thirty percent.”” (Paragraph 2)

  
  

• “It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta. Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions- a-minute flyers, and mixed with half a ton of other meat, no odor that ever was in a ham could make any

  difference.” (Paragraph 3)

  
  

• “All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.” (Paragraph 5)