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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?
(a) As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.
(b) Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.
(c) After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west. Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks. Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city. After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west.
(d) Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.

2. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) A conflict over how to use resources.
(b) A conflict over territory.
(c) A political power struggle.
(d) An engagement and marriage.

3. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?
(a) He thought that the settlers and natives could work together.
(b) He thought the New World would improve the settlers.
(c) He thought that the New World could improve the natives.
(d) He saw a unique opportunity in the New World.

4. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to nature.
(b) Life in religion.
(c) Life in nature.
(d) Life in the city.

5. What kinds of machines especially did Americans welcome at the end of the 18th century?
(a) Telegraphs.
(b) Machine tools.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Milling machines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

2. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

3. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?

4. What trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?

5. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?

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