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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 both monetized.
(b) They are both reinvented by machines.
(c) They are no longer exclusive.
(d) They are no longer interdependent.

2. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.
(b) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.
(c) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(d) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

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

4. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?

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

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