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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?
(a) Industrial developments.
(b) Reactionary philosophy.
(c) Peace movements.
(d) Ignorance and apathy.

2. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?
(a) Beverly saw the natives learn to want drink and escapism as a result of contact with settlers.
(b) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.
(c) Beverly saw human nature become greedy when resources were cheap.
(d) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.

3. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
(a) John Orvis.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Daniel Webster.

4. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
(a) Green, rural lifestyle.
(b) The savages' harmony with nature.
(c) Harnessing natural resources.
(d) Domesticating wild things.

5. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?
(a) Poetry and technology.
(b) Urbaneness and wilderness.
(c) Nature and civility.
(d) Literature and action.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?

2. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?

3. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?

4. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?

5. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

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