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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 does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?
2. What is the consequence of knowing nature, according to Twain's work?
3. What did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose?
4. How would you describe Marx's book 'The Machine in the Garden'?
5. What did Daniel Webster believe the railroad would do for America?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the purpose of an epilogue?
2. How did Daniel Webster describe industrialism?
3. What is the future of the pastoral ideal in Marx's view at the end of the epilogue?
4. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?
5. What was Mark Twain's stance on technology and nature in Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
6. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's 'The Unpardonable Sin'?
7. How would you describe the genre shift at the end of 'The Machine in the Garden'?
8. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson see nature?
9. How developed was the land at the end of the 18th century?
10. What is Ishmael's relationship with Ahab, in Melville's Moby Dick?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Utopia means 'the good place' and 'no place'. How does this paradox relate to the pastoral ideal? Is pastoralism ultimately Utopian? What are the differences between Utopianism and pastoralism?
Essay Topic 2
Write a review of Marx's 'The Machine in the Garden'. What did Marx set out to do in the book, and how did he do it? Did he accomplish his goals? Did he fulfill all his promises? Did he leave questions unanswered? Were there problems or contradictions in the work that undermined 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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