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Women's Rights and Suffrage

Question 7 • MO-US History II A

Which of these is an example of muckraking disguised as a work of fiction?

Answer
A
A Century of Dishonor and Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
B
The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell
C
The Octopus by Frank Norris
D
The Red Record by Ida B. Wells

Explanation

The Octopus by Frank Norris is a fictional novel that exposed abuses by the railroad industry and its power over farmers. That makes it an example of muckraking presented as fiction. Ida Tarbell’s and Ida B. Wells’s works are investigative nonfiction, while Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor is nonfiction and Ramona is a novel.

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