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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism?
(a) Hegel and Marx.
(b) Derrida and Foucault.
(c) Lenin and Stalin.
(d) William James and John Dewey.

2. How does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?
(a) It discourages invention.
(b) It uses only one part of him.
(c) It treats him as a commodity.
(d) It requires long hours in dark factories.

3. What was Daniel Webster's feeling about pastoralism?
(a) He thought it would corrupt America's soul.
(b) He thought it would heal industrialism.
(c) He thought it could co-exist with technology.
(d) He set out national parks to preserve pastoral spaces.

4. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Cautiously optimistic.
(c) Determined.
(d) Elated.

5. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(b) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(c) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(d) The free market.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

2. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?

3. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

4. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?

5. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?

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