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The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz

Leo Marx
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1)

How did the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history? (from The Garden)

As a purgatory.
As a desert.
As a pestilential swamp.
As a promised land.
2)

Who does Marx say will *not* contribute to reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

Farmers.
Artists.
Activists.
Urban planners.
3)

What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time? (from The Garden)

Landscape painting.
Trompe l'oeil paintings.
Terza rima.
Homeric versa.
4)

What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World? (from The Garden)

Natives wanted progress, but then they hated themselves.
Whites wanted peace with the natives, but took their land to start wars.
Settlers brought progress, but the natives didn't want it.
Settlers wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.
5)

In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work? (from The Garden)

As a raw material.
As a domestic industry.
As an improved nature.
As a new nature.
6)

What did Coxe contrast manufacturing with? (from The Machine)

Self-reliance.
Cottage industry.
The trades.
Importation.
7)

How does Marx predict the trend toward urbanization and industrialization will be reversed? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

By popular uprisings.
By resource depletion.
By market changes.
By politics.
8)

What is the purpose of an epilogue? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

To repeat the main themes one more time.
To repudiate parts of the book that look naïve or foolish.
To reflect on the content of the book.
To describe the process of writing the book.
9)

What did Coxe foresee for America? (from The Machine)

The danger of industrialism.
How industrialism would give America strength internationally.
The civic uses of industrialism.
The value of industrialism.
10)

How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time? (from The Garden)

Nature seemed chaotic and devilish compared with civilization.
Nature seemed divine and benevolent compared with corrupt man.
Nature seemed benevolent compared with the disordered city.
Nature had become a mirror for man's corrupt soul.
11)

What effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin? (from Two Kingdoms of Force)

It spreads light into the wilderness.
It brings religion to people.
It drives factories and great productivity.
It destroys an everyman.
12)

What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism? (from The Machine)

Hegel and Marx.
Lenin and Stalin.
William James and John Dewey.
Derrida and Foucault.
13)

What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer? (from The Garden)

The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.
The promise that a man can change his life.
The promise that the wilderness can be domesticated.
The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
14)

What structures does Marx use as examples of how modern man mistreats nature? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

Roads and parking lots.
Hospitals and nursing homes.
Golf courses and cemeteries.
Bridges and tunnels.
15)

When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia? (from The Garden)

1789.
1803.
1776.
1781.
16)

What was the effect of industrialism in Thoreau's vision? (from Two Kingdoms of Force)

Man had become a slave to his tools.
Machines had improved daily life for millions.
Industry had generated enormous wealth.
Military developments had made technology deadlier than ever.
17)

Which industry has Marx talked most about, in 'The Machine in the Garden'? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

Transportation.
Education.
Pharmaceuticals.
Medical devices.
18)

How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology? (from The Machine)

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. 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.
As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.
19)

How do modern authors, Marx included, tend to feel about preserving nature in an industrial world? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

Exuberant.
Pessimistic.
Cautiously optimistic.
Zealous.
20)

What is Marx's tone throughout 'The Machine in the Garden'? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

Scientific and analytical.
Analytical and pessimistic.
Optimistic and casual.
Reverential and despairing by turns.
21)

Who was Tench Coxe? (from The Machine)

A Boston statesman.
A New York financier.
A Philadelphia inventor and statesman.
A Philadelphia merchant.
22)

What did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose? (from Two Kingdoms of Force)

Reconciliation of industry and nature.
Domestication of nature.
Rejection of industry.
Urbanization of nature.
23)

What part of man remained free of industrialism, in Carlyle's view? (from The Machine)

His mind.
His eyes.
None of him.
His spirit.
24)

How did Thoreau describe modern man? (from Two Kingdoms of Force)

Poised at the boundary between nature and industry.
Torn apart by his desires.
Unhappy in factories.
Free in the wilderness.
25)

Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work? (from The Garden)

He thought the New World would improve the settlers.
He thought that the settlers and natives could work together.
He saw a unique opportunity in the New World.
He thought that the New World could improve the natives.
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