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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) An engagement and marriage.
(b) A political power struggle.
(c) A conflict over territory.
(d) A conflict over how to use resources.

2. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?
(a) No government.
(b) No work.
(c) No disparity between rich and poor.
(d) No need for language.

3. Why does Marx say that machines could be welcomed into America?
(a) Because there was such sharp competition.
(b) Because the frontier would always be wild.
(c) Because they would tame the vast frontier.
(d) Because industrial capacity provided a survival edge.

4. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of travel to India.
(b) Accounts of travel to the New World.
(c) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(d) Accounts of African tribes.

5. Where was Hawthorne when he wrote the piece Marx analyzed?
(a) Concord, MA.
(b) Yosemite, CA.
(c) Norfolk, VA.
(d) Providence, RI.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

2. How does Marx say most American writers described industrial expansion?

3. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?

4. What effect does Marx say Emerson foresaw for industrialism?

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

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