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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Money from exports.
(b) Imported grain.
(c) Nature's bounty.
(d) Natives' produce.

2. Who was Tench Coxe?
(a) A Philadelphia merchant.
(b) A Boston statesman.
(c) A New York financier.
(d) A Philadelphia inventor and statesman.

3. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?
(a) He thought that the New World could improve the natives.
(b) He thought the New World would improve the settlers.
(c) He thought that the settlers and natives could work together.
(d) He saw a unique opportunity in the New World.

4. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Fire, smoke and speed.
(b) Power, productivity, and order.
(c) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.
(d) Efficiency, control, and profit.

5. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?
(a) As a requirement for a green society.
(b) As the path to the future.
(c) As a hindrance to progress.
(d) As a harmless fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feature of modern society came into existence with American industrialism?

2. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

3. How does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?

4. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

5. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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