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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1584.
(b) 1590.
(c) 1609.
(d) 1650.

2. What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism?
(a) Lenin and Stalin.
(b) Derrida and Foucault.
(c) William James and John Dewey.
(d) Hegel and Marx.

3. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Power, productivity, and order.
(b) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(c) Fire, smoke and speed.
(d) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.

4. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?
(a) 99%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 90%.

5. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) Legitimacy as an American.
(b) A middle ground between city and country.
(c) Maturity.
(d) A high ground in terms of religious experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?

2. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

3. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

4. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

5. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?

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