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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. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?
(a) He should keep nature alive in his cities.
(b) For temporary respites.
(c) On weekends.
(d) For permanent residence.

2. What percentage of Americans lived on farms (in the time of Marx's writing)?
(a) 25%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 10%.

3. What did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose?
(a) Reconciliation of industry and nature.
(b) Rejection of industry.
(c) Urbanization of nature.
(d) Domestication of nature.

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

5. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?
(a) The human race committing suicide.
(b) Disaffection, alienation, and disease.
(c) The unification of humans and nature.
(d) The unification of knowledge in one science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

2. What did Thoreau conclude as a result of his time at Walden?

3. How did Emerson portray nature?

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

5. What does our continued faith in the pastoral society preserve, in Marx's description?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Marx describe modern man's relationship with the pastoral ideal?

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

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

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

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

8. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?

9. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

10. What was Mark Twain's stance on technology and nature in Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

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