The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Leo Marx
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The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Leo Marx
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Shakepeare's American Fable.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of travel to the New World.
(b) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(c) Accounts of African tribes.
(d) Accounts of travel to India.

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

4. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?
(a) Mosses from an Old Manse.
(b) Sleepy Hollow Notes.
(c) The Marble Faun.
(d) The Celestial Railroad.

5. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?
(a) Political intrigue.
(b) Natural spirituality.
(c) Indigenous people.
(d) American colonization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?

2. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

3. What did colonists find in America?

4. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?

5. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?

(see the answer key)

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