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

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

Leo Marx
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kingdoms of Force.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?
(a) Creation of a permanently poor underclass.
(b) Decline of morals.
(c) Declining value of money.
(d) Loss of nature.

2. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
(a) Harnessing natural resources.
(b) Domesticating wild things.
(c) Green, rural lifestyle.
(d) The savages' harmony with nature.

3. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?
(a) No government.
(b) No disparity between rich and poor.
(c) No need for language.
(d) No work.

4. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?
(a) Eighteenth century.
(b) At colonization.
(c) Seventeenth century.
(d) Nineteenth century.

5. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
(a) Development and expansion.
(b) Generosity and sharing.
(c) Conservation and reservations.
(d) Hard work and sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?

2. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?

3. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?

4. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

5. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

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