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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Marx say that machines could be welcomed into America?
(a) Because the frontier would always be wild.
(b) Because there was such sharp competition.
(c) Because industrial capacity provided a survival edge.
(d) Because they would tame the vast frontier.

2. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?
(a) Beverly saw human nature become greedy when resources were cheap.
(b) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.
(c) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.
(d) Beverly saw the natives learn to want drink and escapism as a result of contact with settlers.

3. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?
(a) Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.
(b) Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.
(c) After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west. Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks. Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city. After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west.
(d) As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.

4. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?
(a) 99%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 75%.

5. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Outdated buildings.
(b) Urban areas.
(c) Urban parks.
(d) Small towns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

2. What did colonists find in America?

3. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?

4. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?

5. What trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?

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