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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are no longer exclusive.
(b) They are no longer interdependent.
(c) They are both monetized.
(d) They are both reinvented by machines.

2. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?
(a) By an Indian.
(b) By a blue jay.
(c) By a merchant.
(d) By a railroad whistle.

3. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(b) The free market.
(c) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(d) Protecting individuals from industrialism.

4. How does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?
(a) It treats him as a commodity.
(b) It requires long hours in dark factories.
(c) It uses only one part of him.
(d) It discourages invention.

5. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
(a) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
(b) The promise that a man can change his life.
(c) The promise that the wilderness can be domesticated.
(d) The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would manufacturing do for America, in Coxe's estimation?

2. What 'sealed the fate' of American industrialism, according to Marx?

3. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?

4. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

5. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

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