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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 manufacturing do for America, in Coxe's estimation?
(a) Ensure independence.
(b) Unify the electorate.
(c) Drive western expansion.
(d) Generate wealth.

2. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?
(a) Wilderness and domestication.
(b) Corruption and innocence.
(c) Comfort and exploration.
(d) Civilization and primitive life.

3. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?
(a) Industrial modernism.
(b) Urbanization.
(c) Extractive industries.
(d) The reality of history.

4. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1780s.
(d) 1840s.

5. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?
(a) As a refuge from Europe.
(b) As a land of plenty.
(c) As a tropical paradise.
(d) As a harsh land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

2. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?

3. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?

4. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?

5. How did Coxe's vision for industrialism intersect with pastoralism?

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