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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What conflict does Marx say was avoided as America expanded?
2. What did Thoreau conclude as a result of his time at Walden?
3. What is the purpose of an epilogue?
4. What effect does Marx say Emerson foresaw for industrialism?
5. What is Marx's tone throughout 'The Machine in the Garden'?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Thoreau reconcile machines and nature?
2. How did Daniel Webster describe industrialism?
3. What is complex pastoral ideology, and where does Marx see it in evidence?
4. What was America's first response to steam power in England?
5. How does Marx describe modern man's relationship with the pastoral ideal?
6. What was John Orvis' reaction to industrialism?
7. How did the pastoral ideal redeem the horrors of industrialism?
8. How does Marx categorize modern man's attitude toward the pastoral ideal in terms of the authors he has analyzed?
9. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?
10. How does Marx characterize the modern response to pastoralism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do you think that there was ever a 'good place in nature' or is this concept itself a nostalgic imposition on the experience of loss, and the acquisition of civilization?
Essay Topic 2
Is there an essential pastoralism, or is each person's or culture's pastoralism unique to its own context? Does the similarity of symbols and associations apply in every time and case? Read one of the stories or novels Marx analyzes, to see how the pastoral themes might be unique to the individual work.
Essay Topic 3
Manufacturing was both an evil and a source of national strength in the 18th century. How did manufacturing change the idea of industrialism, and did the acquisition of manufacturing strength redeem the loss of natural land? Who argued that it did? Who argued that it did not?
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