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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 heart of the pastoral ideal?
(a) To live in the lap of nature.
(b) To transform nature into an ordered place.
(c) To live out a primitive existence.
(d) To turn nature into an industrial resource.

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

3. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Power, productivity, and order.
(b) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(c) Fire, smoke and speed.
(d) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.

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

5. Where was Hawthorne when he wrote the piece Marx analyzed?
(a) Providence, RI.
(b) Yosemite, CA.
(c) Norfolk, VA.
(d) Concord, MA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

2. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

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

4. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

5. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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