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Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known for his famous muck-raking novels. "The Jungle", published in 1906, exposed conditions in the meatpacking industry and the ensuing public outcry helped spur the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. "The Brass Check" (1919), which described some ways in which yellow journalism transgressed societal values, was partly responsible for the development of a code of ethics for journalists. Other books explored other aspects of the developing industrial society in the early 20th century.
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  Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"   popular trivia quiz  
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A famous piece of political and socialist literature, "The Jungle" tells the story of Lithuanian immigrants who come to Chicago to work in the famous meatpacking industry. However, they encounter many hardships and cruel realities in this urban jungle.
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  "The Jungle" Quiz    
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I've just read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair for my AP government class. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to make a quiz on it and its effect on America!
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The seller of the family's first house says it was just built. In reality, how long had it existed?

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Upton Sinclair Trivia Questions
1. Who first has the idea of immigrating to America?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Jonas

Jonas hears of a Lithuanian man who struck it rich in America, and, after the failure of Ona's familiy's farm, he suggests that the family travel to America.

2. Where are Jurgis and his family from?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: Lithuania

They moved to Chicago to seek a better life in America. Little did they know, it would not be so easy.

3. What kind of store does Jokubas run?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Delicatessen

Jokubas runs a financial failure of a delicatessen. He is the man who allegedly "made a fortune" in America. He becomes a friend of the family.

4. In the beginning of the book, whom does Jurgis marry?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: Ona

Ona is only fifteen when she marries Jurgis.

5. For what job is Jurgis FIRST hired?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Gutshoveling on the killing beds

Jurgis is immediately spotted apart from the crowd by the bosses due to his size and strong build. He is offered a job gutshoveling on the killing beds. Later on, after losing his place due to injury, he is hired in the fertilizer plant and even further on when he breaks the Beef Strike he works at hog trimming, but he never works as a beef trimmer (although Marija does).

6. What does Jurgis say when he finds out that he and Ona are in debt from the marriage celebration?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: "I will work harder."

Jurgis says that without knowing how difficult getting and retaining work is.

7. Which member of the family signs for the house?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Teta Elzbieta

Poor Elzbieta frets and worries as she hands over the family's hard earned money to the agent and signs the papers for the house.

8. The seller of the family's first house says it was just built. In reality, how long had it existed?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: 15 years

It is a nightmare, with vermin all over, the sewer underneath the house, and it needs a new coat of paint every year or two.

9. What does the Lithuanian word "veselija" mean?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Wedding feast

The "veselija" is the traditional Lithuanian wedding feast, in which the entire family participates in food, drinking, and dancing. Jurgis and Ona's "veselija" is described in the first chapter.

10. Why does Jurgis attack Phil Connor?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: because he raped Ona

He attacked Connor, ripping off a piece of his cheek, and then was sent to jail.

11. How does Ona die?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: during childbirth

By the time Jurgis calls the midwife, who wants 25 dollars for her services, Ona and her baby are already in too much trouble for her to save them.

12. Which character falls in love with Tamoszius, the violin player?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Marija

Tamoszius and Marija fall in love early on in the novel, although they cannot marry due to financial difficulties. Unfortunately, the two's love never culminates because Marija, deeply impoverished, is forced into prostitution and Tamoszius loses a finger and is no longer able to play the violin, consequently leading to his departure from Chicago.

13. Who gives Jurgis a $100 bill?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: Freddie Jones & Freddy Jones

Chances are, Freddie doesn't remember it because he was rather drunk when Jurgis met him. Jurgis ends up losing the money to a crooked bartender.

14. What part of Packingtown does Teta Elzbieta get a job in?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: The sausage room

Elzbieta gets a job in the sausage room, where several fine ingredients, such as meat that has been rejected from Europe; poisoned rats; and meat that has been on the floor, are blended into fine Packingtown products.

15. Who becomes a prostitute?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: Marija

Jurgis finds this out when he finally goes back to see her after "hobo-ing" it for a year.

16. What do Jurgis and Ona name their first son?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Antanas

Jurgis and Ona name their son Antanas after his dearly departed grandfather.

17. What law was passed because of the outrage following the publication of "The Jungle"?

From Quiz "The Jungle" Quiz

Answer: The Pure Food and Drug Act

Good thing, too. I don't like the idea of rat meat being mixed in with my meat, as was portrayed in the novel.

18. Why did Ona not come home from work at night? (on both occasions)

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: She was being forced to sleep with Connor

On two (possibly more) occasions, Ona is forced to sleep with the stockyard foreman Connor, who had threatened the entire family's jobs if she did not submit. Consequently, she is not able to return home, much to the worry of Jurgis. Finally, she confesses the truth about her circumstances. Jurgis savagely attacks Connor and is consequently thrown in jail.

19. Who came to visit Jurgis in jail and informed him that the family was unemployed and starving?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Stanislovas

Stanislovas visits Jurgis and tells him about the family's plight. Desperate for money, he begs Jurgis to give all he has. Jurgis hands over what is left of all his wages: fourteen cents.

20. What does Jurgis discover about the house when he returns from jail?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: It has been repossessed

Jrugis finds a new family is in his house. Turns out that the family could not afford to pay the rent on the house after they became unemployed, and they consequently moved to Aniele's.

21. How does Ona die?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Childbirth complications

Ona goes into labor three months prematurely, and several complications arise. A stubborn midwife arrives too late and Ona dies, along with the baby.

22. Who or what does Elzbieta say Jurgis must live for after Ona's death?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Antanas

Elzbieta reminds Jurgis of his duty to his son, and Jurgis goes back to work and manages to move on with his life for a brief time for the sake of Antanas.

23. Why did Jurgis hop on a freight train and desert the family?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Antanas died

Jurgis comes home one day to find that Antanas has fallen into one of the deep puddles caused by the Chicago rains and drowned. He then sponteneously strikes off on his own, hopping on a freight train and "hoboing it" in the country.

24. What is the name of the leading Democrat in Chicago who is the puppet master of the meatpacking industry?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Mike Scully

Scully is a boss of the bosses in Packingtown and manipulates every election to his own financial pleasure.

25. Which major meat factory owner is Master Freddie related to?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Jones

Master Freddie, a drunk young lad who gives Jurgis shelter and a 100 dollar bill, is related to Jones, owner of Jones's Factory.

26. After Jurgis establishes connections with political powers and breaks the Beef Strike, how much money does he ask to be paid?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: 3 dollars a day

Jurgis becomes a "scab" during the Beef Strike at the packing plants and demands that he be given a salary of three dollars a day for his work. He later finds out that most people had asked for and received up to five dollars a day.

27. Who tells Jurgis where to find Marija?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Alena Jasaityte

Jurgis meets Alena, a woman he recognizes from his first year in Packingtown, by chance on the street. Jurgis is now once again poor and desperate, and Alena tells Jurgis to go to Marija, and she will be able to help.

28. What drug has Marija become addicted to?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Morphine

Due to Marija's life in the brothel, she seems to take more and more morphine every day. After converting to Socialism, Jurgis tries to get her to quit the brothel and get off the morphine, but Marija, embittered and indifferent, says she never will.

29. What is the name of the "madame" of the brothel where Marija works?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Polly Simpson

Polly Simpson is the headmistress of the brothel that employs Marija. Whenever there is trouble with the police, Simpson always worms her way out of it.

30. After Jurgis listens to the Socialist speaker, to what Socialist is he referred to in order to learn more about it?

From Quiz Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Answer: Ostrinski

Jurgis is in a daze after listening to the Socialist orator, and asks the speaker how he can learn more about it. Because he speaks Lithuanian, Ostrinski is recommended. Ostrinski spends the whole night long teaching Jurgis about Socialism and the evils of capitalism.

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