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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 was the general feeling about industrialism in America, as it expanded?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Caution.
(c) Positivism.
(d) Optimism.

2. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?
(a) Corruption.
(b) European military power.
(c) Industrialism.
(d) Native Americans.

3. How does Marx describe the pastoralism of the 19th century?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Sentimental.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Modern.

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

5. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?
(a) It was unsoiled by civilization.
(b) It was theirs by right of conquest.
(c) Everything was free for the taking.
(d) They could buy land so cheap from the natives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

2. What did Coxe contrast manufacturing with?

3. What were Beverly's sources for his history of Virginia?

4. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?

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

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