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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 the wilderness can be domesticated.
(b) The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.
(c) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
(d) The promise that a man can change his life.

2. What trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?
(a) World-weariness.
(b) Greed.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Corruption.

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(c) Outdated buildings.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

4. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Public transit.
(b) Enclosure laws.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The end of slavery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?

2. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?

3. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

4. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

5. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

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