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Quiz for Document 21–3: Letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer, January 12, 1907

Choose the best answer to each question.

Question 21.7

1. Which of the following best characterizes the way Mother Jones saw the conflict between business owners and workers in the early twentieth century?

As a government-orchestrated division of Americans

As a class war that had to lead to the capitalists’ defeat

As a misunderstanding perpetuated by the news media

As a distraction from the nation’s more important racial divisions

Question 21.8

2. What tactic did Mother Jones use to try and persuade Palmer that the conference was pointless?

Relating her own life experiences

Citing statistical data

Describing the failure of other similar efforts

Mocking Palmer’s ignorance of working-class experiences

Question 21.9

3. What type of “lawless act” did Mother Jones accuse the capitalist class of committing?

Wage theft

Assaults upon workers

Violation of labor laws

Bribery of government officials