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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) Decline of morals.
(b) Loss of nature.
(c) Creation of a permanently poor underclass.
(d) Declining value of money.

2. How does Marx say most American writers described industrial expansion?
(a) As a crime.
(b) As a force of nature.
(c) As a form of art.
(d) As a torment.

3. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?
(a) He decried the disruption of nature.
(b) He protested the destruction of indigenous societies.
(c) He complained about the decline of marriage in cities.
(d) He lamented the death of wildlife.

4. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?
(a) A virtuous man of nature.
(b) An industrious, independent farmer.
(c) A powerful industrialist.
(d) An inventive entrepreneur.

5. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?
(a) Settlers brought progress, but the natives didn't want it.
(b) Whites wanted peace with the natives, but took their land to start wars.
(c) Settlers wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.
(d) Natives wanted progress, but then they hated themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?

2. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?

3. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

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

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