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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 does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) Legitimacy as an American.
(b) Maturity.
(c) A middle ground between city and country.
(d) A high ground in terms of religious experience.

2. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
(a) During the French Revolution.
(b) At colonization.
(c) At the Industrial Revolution.
(d) At the Revolution.

3. What power does Marx credit government with, in reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization?
(a) Hesitancy to impose lifestyle changes on the people.
(b) Inability to manage complex problems.
(c) Powerlessness before the will of the people.
(d) The ability to create lasting change.

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

5. What else does Marx say about people who live pastoral lives?
(a) They are Indians and blacks.
(b) They are rich.
(c) They are poor.
(d) They are powerless.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marx describe the pastoralism of the 19th century?

2. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?

3. What structures does Marx use as examples of how modern man mistreats nature?

4. What was the general feeling about industrialism in America, as it expanded?

5. How does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?

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