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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?
(a) Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.
(b) 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.
(c) As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.
(d) Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.

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

3. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Balance between man and nature.
(b) Justice in righting old wrongs.
(c) Fairness in dividing territory.
(d) Balance between men and women.

4. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?
(a) Declining value of money.
(b) Creation of a permanently poor underclass.
(c) Decline of morals.
(d) Loss of nature.

5. What did Daniel Webster believe the railroad would do for America?
(a) Corrupt the youth.
(b) Destroy the traditions.
(c) Unify the people.
(d) Terrify the livestock.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?

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

3. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?

4. What trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?

5. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

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