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

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Flying.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Travel.
(d) Hiking.

2. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The conflict over resource use.
(b) The conflict over resource use.
(c) The struggle for domination over nature.
(d) The struggle for poetic expression.

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

4. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Industrial modernism.
(c) The reality of history.
(d) Extractive industries.

5. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?
(a) That it had to be aligned with public virtues.
(b) That it had to be developed.
(c) That it had to balance efficiencies with creating employment opportunities.
(d) That it had to be suppressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?

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

3. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?

4. What were Beverly's sources for his history of Virginia?

5. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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