This author's book, The Jungle, dramatized the frightful conditions in meat-packing plants in the early 1900s and helped pave the way for the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
A. Huey Long
B. Upton Sinclair
C. Charles Dickens
D. Mark Twain
E. Sinclair Lewis
Answer: B
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