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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. Which industry has Marx talked most about, in 'The Machine in the Garden'?
(a) Education.
(b) Transportation.
(c) Medical devices.
(d) Pharmaceuticals.

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

3. What type of society was America (in the time of Marx's writing)?
(a) Suburban.
(b) Non-agrarian.
(c) Rural.
(d) Urban.

4. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?
(a) 99%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 90%.
(d) 75%.

5. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?
(a) He lamented the changing structure of society.
(b) He used it to his profit.
(c) He loathed the railroad.
(d) He embraced the new power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

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

3. What was the general feeling about industrialism in America, as it expanded?

4. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?

5. What was unique about American manufacturing, in Coxe's view?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the dark side of industrialism, in most writers' eyes?

2. What was Tench Coxe's contribution to the American pastoral ideal?

3. How did Emerson react to industrialism?

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

5. What is the role of industry in Melville's Moby Dick?

6. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's 'The Unpardonable Sin'?

7. How developed was the land at the end of the 18th century?

8. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

9. What critique did Carlyle make of industrialism?

10. How did the pastoral ideal redeem the horrors of industrialism?

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