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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) His current civilized state.
(b) Jim's incarceration.
(c) His loss of his father.
(d) Tom Sawyer's punishment.

2. What does the ocean symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?
(a) Man's redemption.
(b) A provident god.
(c) Nature's danger.
(d) Man's creativity.

3. What effect does Marx say Emerson foresaw for industrialism?
(a) Devaluation of the worker in the market.
(b) Control of the worker in his working environment.
(c) Fulfillment of the worker in his work.
(d) Detachment of the worker from his work.

4. What conflict does Marx say was avoided as America expanded?
(a) Warfare between industrial and agrarian interests.
(b) Class warfare.
(c) Warfare between financiers and farmers.
(d) Warfare between North and South.

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

6. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?
(a) Man's desire for progress.
(b) The demonic element in factories.
(c) Chaotic forces of nature.
(d) Intellect.

7. What should man do in nature, in Thoreau's vision?
(a) Oppose industrialism.
(b) Learn the ways of the animals.
(c) Study the ruthless ways of men.
(d) Contemplate eternal laws.

8. What was the effect of industrialism in Thoreau's vision?
(a) Industry had generated enormous wealth.
(b) Machines had improved daily life for millions.
(c) Man had become a slave to his tools.
(d) Military developments had made technology deadlier than ever.

9. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?
(a) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(b) Industry provides for men and destroys them.
(c) Man reveres nature but plunders it.
(d) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.

10. What effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?
(a) It drives factories and great productivity.
(b) It spreads light into the wilderness.
(c) It brings religion to people.
(d) It destroys an everyman.

11. Which term describes the title of Marx's epilogue?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Paradox.

12. How does Marx say most American writers described industrial expansion?
(a) As a form of art.
(b) As a crime.
(c) As a torment.
(d) As a force of nature.

13. Which school of criticism does Marx belong to?
(a) New Historicism.
(b) Psychoanalytic criticism.
(c) New Criticism.
(d) Deconstruction.

14. What does our continued faith in the pastoral society preserve, in Marx's description?
(a) Faith in individual survival.
(b) Pessimism about industry.
(c) Faith in urban planning.
(d) Pessimism about leaders.

15. What part of man remained free of industrialism, in Carlyle's view?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His mind.
(c) His spirit.
(d) None of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?

2. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

3. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?

4. What is Marx's tone throughout 'The Machine in the Garden'?

5. How does Marx say modern Americans see nature?

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