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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
(a) At the Industrial Revolution.
(b) At the Revolution.
(c) At colonization.
(d) During the French Revolution.

5. 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 live out a primitive existence.
(d) To turn nature into an industrial resource.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Hawthorne when he wrote the piece Marx analyzed?

3. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?

4. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?

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

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