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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Hawthorne when he wrote the piece Marx analyzed?
(a) Concord, MA.
(b) Norfolk, VA.
(c) Providence, RI.
(d) Yosemite, CA.

2. What did colonists find in America?
(a) Virgin land.
(b) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.
(c) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(d) A desert they could transform into a garden.

3. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?
(a) The desire to merge with nature.
(b) The interruption of woodland peace.
(c) The futility of fighting nature.
(d) The imperative to transform nature.

4. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
(a) The cotton gin.
(b) The steam locomotive.
(c) The steamship.
(d) The factory.

5. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?
(a) Twentieth century.
(b) Eighteenth century.
(c) With colonization.
(d) Nineteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?

2. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?

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

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

5. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

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