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

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

3. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?
(a) Industrial modernism.
(b) Extractive industries.
(c) The reality of history.
(d) Urbanization.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?

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

3. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

4. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

5. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?

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