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

2. What do complex pastoralists recognize, in Marx's account?
(a) The need to return to nature at any cost.
(b) The need to integrate industrial machinery with natural processes.
(c) The need to abolish machinery.
(d) The need to reconcile pastoralism and industrialism.

3. What skill did Twain idealize?
(a) The engineer's ability to bridge rivers.
(b) The steam locomotive engineer's control over the train.
(c) The Indian soldier's warfare.
(d) The riverboat pilot's knowledge of the river.

4. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?
(a) As a form of corruption.
(b) As a crime against Indians.
(c) As a form of progress.
(d) As a destruction of the landscape.

5. How did Thoreau describe modern man?
(a) Free in the wilderness.
(b) Unhappy in factories.
(c) Poised at the boundary between nature and industry.
(d) Torn apart by his desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

2. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?

3. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

4. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?

5. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?

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