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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 was Tench Coxe?
(a) A Boston statesman.
(b) A New York financier.
(c) A Philadelphia merchant.
(d) A Philadelphia inventor and statesman.

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

3. How does Marx characterize man's hopes for nature?
(a) Realistic planning.
(b) Scientific resource allocation.
(c) Pastoral idealism.
(d) Consensus-based resource use.

4. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?
(a) He decried the disruption of nature.
(b) He complained about the decline of marriage in cities.
(c) He lamented the death of wildlife.
(d) He protested the destruction of indigenous societies.

5. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?
(a) Industry provides for men and destroys them.
(b) Man reveres nature but plunders it.
(c) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(d) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?

2. How did Emerson describe the relationship between the east and the west?

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

4. What is the consequence of knowing nature, according to Twain's work?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was John Orvis' reaction to industrialism?

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

3. What is the future of the pastoral ideal in Marx's view at the end of the epilogue?

4. What critique did Carlyle make of industrialism?

5. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson see nature?

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

7. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?

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

9. What is the 'Garden of Ashes' a reference to?

10. How did Daniel Webster describe industrialism?

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