2. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Orvis.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Daniel Webster.

3. What did Daniel Webster believe the railroad would do for America?
(a) Corrupt the youth.
(b) Terrify the livestock.
(c) Destroy the traditions.
(d) Unify the people.

4. What did Thoreau conclude as a result of his time at Walden?
(a) That technology must be stopped.
(b) That man should simplify his life.
(c) That men are desperate and sad.
(d) That men should remove themselves from society.

5. How do modern authors, Marx included, tend to feel about preserving nature in an industrial world?
(a) Cautiously optimistic.
(b) Pessimistic.
(c) Exuberant.
(d) Zealous.

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

7. What would men of understanding provide in Emerson's vision?
(a) Literature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Technology.
(d) Leadership.

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

9. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
(a) Progress changes the course of human nature.
(b) Nature ultimately conquered industrial man.
(c) Society's benefits do not outweigh its costs.
(d) Primitive human psychology is inescapable.

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

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

12. What is the purpose of an epilogue?
(a) To repeat the main themes one more time.
(b) To reflect on the content of the book.
(c) To repudiate parts of the book that look naïve or foolish.
(d) To describe the process of writing the book.

13. What was Daniel Webster's feeling about pastoralism?
(a) He thought it would corrupt America's soul.
(b) He thought it could co-exist with technology.
(c) He set out national parks to preserve pastoral spaces.
(d) He thought it would heal industrialism.

14. How did Coxe's vision for industrialism intersect with pastoralism?
(a) Coxe prophesied that extractive industries would ruin the landscape.
(b) Coxe thought that factories would blight the landscape.
(c) Coxe thought that America's environment would make the factory a pastoral place.
(d) Coxe predicted that industries would leave dead places in the environment when they collapsed.

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