The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Leo Marx
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The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marx point out accompanied factories and progress in transportation?
(a) Decreased infant mortality rates.
(b) Worker abuses.
(c) Increased literacy.
(d) Longer lifespans.

2. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1780s.

3. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Virginia.

4. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Orvis.
(d) Daniel Webster.

5. What did Daniel Webster believe the railroad would do for America?
(a) Destroy the traditions.
(b) Terrify the livestock.
(c) Unify the people.
(d) Corrupt the youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

2. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

3. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?

4. What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism?

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

(see the answer key)

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