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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?
(a) Creation of a permanently poor underclass.
(b) Loss of nature.
(c) Decline of morals.
(d) Declining value of money.

2. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(b) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(c) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(d) The free market.

3. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1584.
(b) 1609.
(c) 1590.
(d) 1650.

4. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?
(a) Government.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Finance.

5. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Tahiti.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?

2. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?

3. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

4. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?

5. What would manufacturing do for America, in Coxe's estimation?

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