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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 Marx predict the trend toward urbanization and industrialization will be reversed?

2. What trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?

3. What does modern man hope for, in spite of industrialism?

4. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?

5. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What critique did Carlyle make of industrialism?

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

3. What is the purpose of an epilogue?

4. How did Henry Adam's reconcile pastoralism and industrialism?

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

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

7. How did Daniel Webster describe industrialism?

8. How would you characterize Marx's own view about pastoralism?

9. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson see nature?

10. What does Marx say the ship Pequod symbolizes in Melville's Moby Dick?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which literary forms are most appropriate to the pastoral life, poetry, fiction or the non-fiction essays like Emerson and Thoreau wrote? Is there a literature form that corresponds to experience?

Essay Topic 2

How do women experience the pastoral ideal? Are men's and women's experiences of nature and the simple life different? What is it in male or female nature or in Western culture that accounts for the difference?

Essay Topic 3

From driving to National Parks, or seeing wildlife in zoos or managing environments for the sake of wildfires or endangered species, Americans seem to be able to reconcile a high level of science and industry with a high sense of nature and pristineness. What arts or cultural developments have allowed Americans to endure the paradoxes of their industrial lifestyles?

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