Where: D16
Who: All of the important people
How: With a No. 2 pencil, scantron, test booklet, and your brilliance
Why: It will make you a better person
What: ~37 multiple choice questions + another 5-8 bonus questions
Ponder the following in order to impress with your test:
1) What does the author of this quote think about muckrakers? Why?
To assail the great and admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping generalizations as to include decent men in the general condemnation means the searing of the public conscience. There results a general attitude either of cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad. Either attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well-nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. There is nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter.
Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.
Source: The Man With the Muck-Rake, Theodore Roosevelt, April 14, 1906
2) Who are the people in the cartoon below? Why is the man with glasses singing? How does the other man feel about the song?
3) What is that woman about to chop with that axe?
4) Who are the gentlemen in the cartoon below? What does each appear to desire? What is the historical context for this cartoon?
5) What does this cartoon have to do with the Progressive Era? Is it in support of progressive goals or opposed to progressive goals?
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