The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Leo Marx
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The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Leo Marx
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?
(a) Ingenuity and technology.
(b) Creativity and inspiration.
(c) Creativity and inspiration.
(d) Intellect and privilege.

2. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(b) Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
(c) Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
(d) Morrison's Beloved.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?

3. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?

4. What part of 'The Tempest' held special interest for Marx?

5. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Robert Beverly describe the New World in his History?

2. What feature of American culture allowed Jefferson's ideal to survive for 100 years?

3. In what way does the railroad symbolize the industrial intrusion into a pastoral idyll?

4. Why was Beverly ultimately disappointed in the New World?

5. When did complex pastoral ideology begin to appear in American culture?

6. How does Marx describe the value of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in 'The Machine in the Garden'?

7. How does Shakespeare demonstrate the impossibility of the pastoral ideal?

8. What is the sentimental pastoral ideal?

9. What discovery does Marx say we find in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?

10. What does Marx mean when he says that America offered a middle way for men?

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