View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sleepy Hollow, 1844.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?
(a) More elegant.
(b) Faster.
(c) More complex.
(d) Simpler.

2. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?
(a) The reality of history.
(b) Industrial modernism.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Extractive industries.

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

4. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Fire, smoke and speed.
(b) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(c) Power, productivity, and order.
(d) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

2. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

3. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?

4. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

5. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 227 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample