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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 dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?
(a) Decline of morals.
(b) Creation of a permanently poor underclass.
(c) Loss of nature.
(d) Declining value of money.

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

3. What does Marx point out accompanied factories and progress in transportation?
(a) Worker abuses.
(b) Decreased infant mortality rates.
(c) Longer lifespans.
(d) Increased literacy.

4. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?
(a) A refuge.
(b) A place of redemption.
(c) A source for good in the Old World.
(d) A place of hardship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

2. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?

3. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

4. What role has literature played in the formation of the culture Marx describes in 'The Machine in the Garden'?

5. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?

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