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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By mining resources.
(b) By conserving.
(c) By building cities.
(d) By making green spaces.

2. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Hawthorne.
(c) Plato.
(d) Homer.

3. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?
(a) To live out a primitive existence.
(b) To turn nature into an industrial resource.
(c) To live in the lap of nature.
(d) To transform nature into an ordered place.

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

5. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Exploitation of resources.
(c) Relocation to the suburbs.
(d) Rail trails.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?

2. What kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?

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

4. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?

5. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?

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