The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Leo Marx
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The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(b) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(c) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(d) The free market.

2. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Norris' The Octopus.
(b) James' Daisy Miller.
(c) Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) Thoreau's Walden.

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

4. What did Coxe contrast manufacturing with?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Importation.
(c) The trades.
(d) Cottage industry.

5. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?
(a) Art.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?

2. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?

3. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?

4. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?

5. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

(see the answer key)

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