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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 role has literature played in the formation of the culture Marx describes in 'The Machine in the Garden'?
(a) Literature spurred the developments that shaped the landscape.
(b) Literature reflected the changes after they had happened.
(c) Literature inspired the urge to abandon farms for cities.
(d) Literature guided people as they settled the land.

2. What does the ocean symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?
(a) Man's redemption.
(b) A provident god.
(c) Man's creativity.
(d) Nature's danger.

3. Who does Marx say will *not* contribute to reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization?
(a) Urban planners.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Activists.
(d) Artists.

4. What defines complex pastoralism?
(a) Acceptance of history.
(b) Redemption of the alienation that comes from industrial modernity.
(c) Refusal to let sentimental pastoralism lapse.
(d) Industrial machinery fostering nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marx describe the pastoralism of the 19th century?

2. What does Marx say Thoreau wanted people to do in nature?

3. What feature of modern society came into existence with American industrialism?

4. What does Marx say about man's hopes for nature?

5. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How would you describe the genre shift at the end of 'The Machine in the Garden'?

3. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson see nature?

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

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

6. How did Emerson react to industrialism?

7. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

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

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

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

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