Which of Upton Sinclair’s books is about the meat-packing industry ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Theodor Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” further examines the notion of the “culture industry” and suggests which of the following about the “culture industry ?”

   A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.
   B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
   C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.
   D. Both A and B

2. According to Theodor Adorno’s and Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of the following is true of the culture industry ?

   A. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
   B. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.
   C. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.
   D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.

3. In the early books of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Satan conspires with which of the following characters ?

   A. Baal
   B. Beelzebub
   C. Michel
   D. A and B

4. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is most similar in linguistic style to what books from “Paradise Lost” ?

   A. Three and Four
   B. Five and Six
   C. Eight and Nine
   D. Eleven and Twelve

5. How many books were included in the secondedition of the poem Paradise Lost ?

   A. 10
   B. 14
   C. 12
   D. 11

6. What were “conduct books” ?

   A. books that established standards of behavior for women
   B. books that were primarily intended to teach men how to treat their wives
   C. books that conformed with strict standards of behavior
   D. books that recounted historical events in the medieval era

7. Which of the following was a result of Charlemange’s decree on the production of books ?

   A. it ended the Church’s role in the creation of books
   B. it led to a sudden increase of women as scholars and authors
   C. it declared that books should be produced by men
   D. it opened up new opportunities for women to learn

8. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

   A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
   B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
   C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
   D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

9. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

   A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
   B. the Norman Conquest of 1066.
   C. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
   D. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

10. In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?

    A. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
    B. round-earthers and flat-earthers
    C. the Welsh and the Scots
    D. champions of ancient and modern learning