The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Leo Marx
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Leo Marx
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Urban planners.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Industrialists.
(d) Politicians.

2. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?
(a) As a requirement for a green society.
(b) As a hindrance to progress.
(c) As a harmless fantasy.
(d) As the path to the future.

3. Where was Hawthorne when he wrote the piece Marx analyzed?
(a) Concord, MA.
(b) Providence, RI.
(c) Yosemite, CA.
(d) Norfolk, VA.

4. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?
(a) Slow pace of technological development.
(b) Peace with natives.
(c) A frontier to expand into.
(d) Absence of foreign threats.

5. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1840s.
(c) 1780s.
(d) 1860s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?

2. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?

3. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

5. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is complex pastoral ideology?

2. What discovery does Marx say we find in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?

3. What view did the colonists take of the New World in the early years of colonization?

4. How did colonists see America?

5. How does Marx describe the value of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in 'The Machine in the Garden'?

6. What are the three spatial stages a person goes through in pastoral ideal?

7. How does Shakespeare demonstrate the impossibility of the pastoral ideal?

8. How did Jefferson change his view on industrialism?

9. What is the consequence of the pastoral ideal?

10. How did Shakespeare's characters describe the ideal society?

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