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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 was the American response to steam power in Britain?

2. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?

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

4. How did Melville describe whaling?

5. How does Marx say modern Americans see nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was America's first response to steam power in England?

2. What was John Orvis' reaction to industrialism?

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

4. How did the pastoral ideal redeem the horrors of industrialism?

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

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

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

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

9. How did Thoreau reconcile machines and nature?

10. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

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

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 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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