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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Relocation to the suburbs.
(b) Exploitation of resources.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Rail trails.

2. What does Ishmael symbolize, in Marx's interpretation of Moby Dick?
(a) The middleman between nature and society.
(b) The representative of nature.
(c) The victim of the whale's aggression.
(d) The prophet to warn people against destroying nature.

3. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Farm subsidies.
(b) Low taxes.
(c) Regulation of speculative investments.
(d) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.

4. What forces have led to the urbanization and industrialization Marx describes?
(a) Science and legal incentives.
(b) Markets and technology.
(c) Literature and mythology.
(d) Wars and military campaigns.

5. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?
(a) A destructive god.
(b) A rural ideal.
(c) Corrupt men.
(d) Powerless men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which school of criticism does Marx belong to?

3. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

4. What role has literature played in the formation of the culture Marx describes in 'The Machine in the Garden'?

5. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?

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