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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.
(b) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.
(c) Nature commanded new respect.
(d) Factories had subjugated nature.

2. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(b) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.
(c) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(d) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.

3. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?
(a) Literature and action.
(b) Urbaneness and wilderness.
(c) Poetry and technology.
(d) Nature and civility.

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

5. What did Daniel Webster believe the railroad would do for America?
(a) Destroy the traditions.
(b) Terrify the livestock.
(c) Unify the people.
(d) Corrupt the youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Daniel Webster's feeling about pastoralism?

2. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?

3. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?

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

5. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?

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