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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?
(a) Elated.
(b) Cautiously optimistic.
(c) Determined.
(d) Disappointed.

2. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Theatre.
(b) Travel.
(c) Flying.
(d) Hiking.

3. 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 reinvented by machines.
(d) They are both monetized.

4. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Nature seemed benevolent compared with the disordered city.
(b) Nature seemed divine and benevolent compared with corrupt man.
(c) Nature seemed chaotic and devilish compared with civilization.
(d) Nature had become a mirror for man's corrupt soul.

5. What does Marx point out accompanied factories and progress in transportation?
(a) Decreased infant mortality rates.
(b) Longer lifespans.
(c) Increased literacy.
(d) Worker abuses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

2. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?

3. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

4. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?

5. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?

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