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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 kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?
(a) More complex.
(b) Simpler.
(c) Faster.
(d) More elegant.

2. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?
(a) Twentieth century.
(b) Nineteenth century.
(c) Eighteenth century.
(d) With colonization.

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

4. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?
(a) A reverie in the woods.
(b) Indian wars.
(c) A whale hunt.
(d) Living in the woods.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did colonists find in America?

2. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

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

4. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

5. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

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