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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 still remains in every man, in Marx's account?
(a) Hope for progress.
(b) The pastoral ideal.
(c) Faith in medicine.
(d) Optimism for industry.

2. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
(a) The steamship.
(b) The cotton gin.
(c) The steam locomotive.
(d) The factory.

3. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Gonzalo and Prospero.
(b) Gonzalo and Ferdinand.
(c) Ferdinand and Miranda.
(d) Miranda and Caliban.

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

5. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?
(a) He thought that the New World could improve the natives.
(b) He thought that the settlers and natives could work together.
(c) He saw a unique opportunity in the New World.
(d) He thought the New World would improve the settlers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect did Carlyle say industrialism would have?

2. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

3. What is the consequence of knowing nature, according to Twain's work?

4. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?

5. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?

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