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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. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?
2. How does Marx say most American writers described industrial expansion?
3. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
4. Who does Marx say will *not* contribute to reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization?
5. What role has literature played in the formation of the culture Marx describes in 'The Machine in the Garden'?
Short Essay Questions
1. What critique did Carlyle make of industrialism?
2. How would you describe the genre shift at the end of 'The Machine in the Garden'?
3. How did the pastoral ideal redeem the horrors of industrialism?
4. What view does Marx ascribe to Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Tocqueville and Twain in common?
5. What does Marx say the ship Pequod symbolizes in Melville's Moby Dick?
6. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's 'The Unpardonable Sin'?
7. How does Marx characterize the modern response to pastoralism?
8. How did Daniel Webster describe industrialism?
9. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?
10. What was Mark Twain's stance on technology and nature in Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did the frontier resolve the tension between pastoralism and industrialism? How did it make the tension worse?
Essay Topic 2
Is pastoralism a state of tension between nature and family on one hand and civilization on the other--is it something open-ended and eternal--or is it a goal, a way of life that can be lived if the right balances can be struck? What forces tend toward that balance? What forces tend to disturb or prevent it?
Essay Topic 3
What part of human nature are people like Shakespeare's Gonzalo or Thoreau or Huckleberry Finn trying to escape from in nature? Where in pastoral literature is that trait accounted for?
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