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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.
(b) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.
(c) Factories had subjugated nature.
(d) Nature commanded new respect.

2. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?
(a) Arcadia.
(b) Paradise Lost.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) Paradise Regained.

3. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(b) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.
(c) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.
(d) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.

4. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
(a) Tahiti.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Virginia.

5. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
(a) At colonization.
(b) At the Revolution.
(c) At the Industrial Revolution.
(d) During the French Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Coxe foresee for America?

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

3. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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

5. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?

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