The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Leo Marx
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The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Leo Marx
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Garden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1781.

2. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Factories had subjugated nature.
(b) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.
(c) Nature commanded new respect.
(d) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.

3. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?
(a) Church.
(b) City.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Garden.

4. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?
(a) Agriculture was going to supply the nation's wealth.
(b) Natural resources were going to be a source of wealth for generations.
(c) Wilderness was going to redeem the nation's soul.
(d) Virgin territory was going absorb all the overflowing east-coast cities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?

2. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?

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

4. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

5. What is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

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