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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Return to home.
(d) Return to childhood.

2. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
(a) The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.
(b) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
(c) The promise that a man can change his life.
(d) The promise that the wilderness can be domesticated.

3. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Relocation.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Feelings of alienation.
(d) Unionization.

4. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?
(a) Savage.
(b) Tumultuous.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Idyllic.

5. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Plato.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Homer.
(d) Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?

2. How does Marx say most American writers described industrial expansion?

3. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?

4. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?

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

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