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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Regulation of speculative investments.
(b) Low taxes.
(c) Farm subsidies.
(d) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.

2. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?
(a) As preventable.
(b) As inevitable.
(c) As natural.
(d) As unnatural.

3. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Homer.
(b) Hawthorne.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Plato.

4. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
(a) Nature ultimately conquered industrial man.
(b) Progress changes the course of human nature.
(c) Society's benefits do not outweigh its costs.
(d) Primitive human psychology is inescapable.

5. How did Coxe's vision for industrialism intersect with pastoralism?
(a) Coxe thought that factories would blight the landscape.
(b) Coxe thought that America's environment would make the factory a pastoral place.
(c) Coxe prophesied that extractive industries would ruin the landscape.
(d) Coxe predicted that industries would leave dead places in the environment when they collapsed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?

2. What conflict does Marx say was avoided as America expanded?

3. What does the Pequod symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?

4. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?

5. What does our continued faith in the pastoral society preserve, in Marx's description?

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