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

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

3. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.
(b) Factories had subjugated nature.
(c) Nature commanded new respect.
(d) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.

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

5. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) A conflict over how to use resources.
(b) An engagement and marriage.
(c) A political power struggle.
(d) A conflict over territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?

2. How did Melville describe whaling?

3. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?

4. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

5. What did Coxe contrast manufacturing with?

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