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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What still remains in every man, in Marx's account?
(a) The pastoral ideal.
(b) Faith in medicine.
(c) Optimism for industry.
(d) Hope for progress.

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

3. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?
(a) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.
(b) Beverly saw the natives learn to want drink and escapism as a result of contact with settlers.
(c) Beverly saw human nature become greedy when resources were cheap.
(d) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.

4. What does Ishmael symbolize, in Marx's interpretation of Moby Dick?
(a) The victim of the whale's aggression.
(b) The prophet to warn people against destroying nature.
(c) The middleman between nature and society.
(d) The representative of nature.

5. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?
(a) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.
(b) Man reveres nature but plunders it.
(c) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(d) Industry provides for men and destroys them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?

2. How does Marx say modern Americans see nature?

3. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?

4. What would manufacturing do for America, in Coxe's estimation?

5. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

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