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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 secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The struggle for domination over nature.
(b) The conflict over resource use.
(c) The struggle for poetic expression.
(d) The conflict over resource use.

2. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
(a) Conservation and reservations.
(b) Development and expansion.
(c) Generosity and sharing.
(d) Hard work and sacrifice.

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

4. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?
(a) Corrupt government.
(b) An industrial capacity.
(c) Filthy cities.
(d) Opposition to expansion.

5. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?
(a) At colonization.
(b) Seventeenth century.
(c) Nineteenth century.
(d) Eighteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?

2. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?

3. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?

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

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

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