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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?
(a) Absence of foreign threats.
(b) A frontier to expand into.
(c) Slow pace of technological development.
(d) Peace with natives.

2. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?
(a) They could buy land so cheap from the natives.
(b) Everything was free for the taking.
(c) It was unsoiled by civilization.
(d) It was theirs by right of conquest.

3. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to know the earth mystically.
(b) The desire to make the earth productive.
(c) The desire to tame the landscape.
(d) The desire to convert the savages.

4. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?
(a) Lawlessness and restraint.
(b) Savagery and civilization.
(c) Wisdom and innocence.
(d) Hardship and providence.

5. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?
(a) Storms and primitive land.
(b) Sparse resources and unsafe territory.
(c) Rocky soil and harsh laws.
(d) Political intrigue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?

2. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?

3. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?

4. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?

5. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

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