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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does Marx say Emerson foresaw for industrialism?
(a) Fulfillment of the worker in his work.
(b) Devaluation of the worker in the market.
(c) Detachment of the worker from his work.
(d) Control of the worker in his working environment.

2. What conflict does Marx say was avoided as America expanded?
(a) Class warfare.
(b) Warfare between financiers and farmers.
(c) Warfare between North and South.
(d) Warfare between industrial and agrarian interests.

3. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Urban parks.
(b) Urban areas.
(c) Small towns.
(d) Outdated buildings.

4. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
(a) Plagues and uncertainty over medical treatment.
(b) Vanities and conflicts over property.
(c) Dogmas and conflicts over religion.
(d) Suppression of religious expression.

5. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?
(a) Natives wanted progress, but then they hated themselves.
(b) Settlers wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.
(c) Settlers brought progress, but the natives didn't want it.
(d) Whites wanted peace with the natives, but took their land to start wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

2. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?

3. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

5. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?

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