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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?

4. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?

5. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

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