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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 a man can change his life.
(d) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.

2. What did Coxe foresee for America?
(a) The civic uses of industrialism.
(b) The value of industrialism.
(c) How industrialism would give America strength internationally.
(d) The danger of industrialism.

3. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?
(a) He loathed the railroad.
(b) He embraced the new power.
(c) He used it to his profit.
(d) He lamented the changing structure of society.

4. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1584.
(c) 1609.
(d) 1590.

5. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Fire, smoke and speed.
(b) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(c) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.
(d) Power, productivity, and order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?

2. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?

3. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

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

5. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?

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