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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. What was the American response to steam power in Britain?
(a) That it would never come to America.
(b) That it would become their great strength.
(c) That it would corrupt the youth with dreams of travel.
(d) That it would provide them cheap power.

2. What was unique about American manufacturing, in Coxe's view?
(a) Markets were waiting for American goods.
(b) The raw materials were limitless.
(c) It presented enormous economic opportunities.
(d) The environment would keep it healthy.

3. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?
(a) Mutual exclusivity.
(b) Cause and effect.
(c) Mutual reinforcement.
(d) Conflict.

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

5. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?
(a) Lamentation about the death of Indian cultures.
(b) Nostalgia for the old days on the Mississippi.
(c) Fear about the consequences of the railroad.
(d) Optimism about industrial expansion into the midwest.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you describe Marx's book 'The Machine in the Garden'?

2. What would men of reason provide in Emerson's vision?

3. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

4. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?

5. What part of man remained free of industrialism, in Carlyle's view?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the context in which Marx was writing the epilogue?

2. What is Ishmael's relationship with Ahab, in Melville's Moby Dick?

3. How would you characterize Marx's own view about pastoralism?

4. What view does Marx ascribe to Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Tocqueville and Twain in common?

5. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?

6. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson see nature?

7. What is complex pastoral ideology, and where does Marx see it in evidence?

8. How did Emerson react to industrialism?

9. What does Marx say the ship Pequod symbolizes in Melville's Moby Dick?

10. What was John Orvis' reaction to industrialism?

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