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

Leo Marx

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

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.

2.

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

Zealous.

Cautiously optimistic.

Pessimistic.

Exuberant.

3.

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

Artists.

Urban planners.

Activists.

Farmers.

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 wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.

Settlers brought progress, but the natives didn't want it.

5.

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

1776.

1781.

1789.

1803.

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