The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology? (from The Machine)

Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.

After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west. Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks. Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city. After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west.

Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.

As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.

2.

Who was Tench Coxe? (from The Machine)

A Boston statesman.

A Philadelphia merchant.

A Philadelphia inventor and statesman.

A New York financier.

3.

What did Coxe foresee for America? (from The Machine)

The danger of industrialism.

The civic uses of industrialism.

The value of industrialism.

How industrialism would give America strength internationally.

4.

What effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin? (from Two Kingdoms of Force)

It drives factories and great productivity.

It brings religion to people.

It spreads light into the wilderness.

It destroys an everyman.

5.

What is the purpose of an epilogue? (from Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes)

To repudiate parts of the book that look naïve or foolish.

To describe the process of writing the book.

To reflect on the content of the book.

To repeat the main themes one more time.

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