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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 was the American response to steam power in Britain?
(a) That it would corrupt the youth with dreams of travel.
(b) That it would never come to America.
(c) That it would provide them cheap power.
(d) That it would become their great strength.

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

3. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of travel to India.
(b) Accounts of African tribes.
(c) Accounts of travel to the New World.
(d) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.

4. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?
(a) Beverly saw human nature become greedy when resources were cheap.
(b) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.
(c) Beverly saw the whites corrupt the natives.
(d) Beverly saw the natives learn to want drink and escapism as a result of contact with settlers.

5. How does Marx say most American writers described industrial expansion?
(a) As a force of nature.
(b) As a crime.
(c) As a torment.
(d) As a form of art.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Marx say modern Americans see nature?

3. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?

4. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?

5. What kinds of machines especially did Americans welcome at the end of the 18th century?

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