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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) John Orvis.

2. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?
(a) 1620.
(b) 1690.
(c) 1703.
(d) 1607.

3. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Travel.
(b) Hiking.
(c) Flying.
(d) Theatre.

4. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are both reinvented by machines.
(b) They are both monetized.
(c) They are no longer exclusive.
(d) They are no longer interdependent.

5. What conflict does Marx say was avoided as America expanded?
(a) Warfare between industrial and agrarian interests.
(b) Warfare between North and South.
(c) Class warfare.
(d) Warfare between financiers and farmers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

2. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

3. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

4. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

5. What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism?

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