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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?
(a) That it had to be aligned with public virtues.
(b) That it had to be developed.
(c) That it had to balance efficiencies with creating employment opportunities.
(d) That it had to be suppressed.

2. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?
(a) Trompe l'oeil paintings.
(b) Homeric versa.
(c) Landscape painting.
(d) Terza rima.

3. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?
(a) European military power.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Industrialism.
(d) Native Americans.

4. 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 wilderness can be domesticated.
(c) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
(d) The promise that a man can change his life.

5. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?
(a) Slow pace of technological development.
(b) Peace with natives.
(c) A frontier to expand into.
(d) Absence of foreign threats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

2. What feature of modern society came into existence with American industrialism?

3. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?

4. What effect did Carlyle say industrialism would have?

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

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