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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 percentage of Americans lived on farms (in the time of Marx's writing)?
(a) 10%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 40%.

2. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?
(a) He lamented the death of wildlife.
(b) He complained about the decline of marriage in cities.
(c) He protested the destruction of indigenous societies.
(d) He decried the disruption of nature.

3. What defines complex pastoralism?
(a) Acceptance of history.
(b) Redemption of the alienation that comes from industrial modernity.
(c) Industrial machinery fostering nature.
(d) Refusal to let sentimental pastoralism lapse.

4. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Relocation to the suburbs.
(b) Urbanization.
(c) Exploitation of resources.
(d) Rail trails.

5. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?
(a) After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west. Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks. Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city. After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west.
(b) As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.
(c) Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.
(d) Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?

2. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?

3. Who does Marx say will *not* contribute to reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization?

4. What power does Marx credit government with, in reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization?

5. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?

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