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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 does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?
(a) As preventable.
(b) As unnatural.
(c) As inevitable.
(d) As natural.

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

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

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

5. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Withdrawal from modernization.
(b) Conservationism.
(c) Environmentalism.
(d) Urban planning for green spaces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

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

3. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?

4. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

5. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?

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