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

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

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

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

5. What modern problem does Marx take as emblematic of man's treatment of nature?
(a) Wars.
(b) Industrial agriculture.
(c) Pandemics.
(d) Pollution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill did Twain idealize?

2. What does modern man hope for, in spite of industrialism?

3. What effect does Marx say Emerson foresaw for industrialism?

4. What do complex pastoralists recognize, in Marx's account?

5. Who does Marx offer as examples of 'complex pastoralism' in America literature?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What critique did Carlyle make of industrialism?

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

6. How does Marx categorize modern man's attitude toward the pastoral ideal in terms of the authors he has analyzed?

7. How did Daniel Webster describe industrialism?

8. What was John Orvis' reaction to industrialism?

9. What were the roles of men of understanding and men of reason in Emerson's vision?

10. How does Marx characterize the modern response to pastoralism?

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