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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?
(a) No government.
(b) No need for language.
(c) No disparity between rich and poor.
(d) No work.

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

3. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By conserving.
(b) By building cities.
(c) By making green spaces.
(d) By mining resources.

4. What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism?
(a) Derrida and Foucault.
(b) Hegel and Marx.
(c) Lenin and Stalin.
(d) William James and John Dewey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?

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

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

4. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?

5. Why does Marx say that machines could be welcomed into America?

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