When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the
a. unsanitary conditions that existed in the meat-packing industry.
b. plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry.
c. corruption in the United States Senate.
d. deplorable conditions in the drug industry.
e. unhealthy effects of beef consumption.
b
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A) Benin B) Songhay C) Kongo D) Kilwa
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