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

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

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

4. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?
(a) As a harmless fantasy.
(b) As a hindrance to progress.
(c) As the path to the future.
(d) As a requirement for a green society.

5. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
(a) Domesticating wild things.
(b) Green, rural lifestyle.
(c) The savages' harmony with nature.
(d) Harnessing natural resources.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

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

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

5. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

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