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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 form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?
(a) Landscape painting.
(b) Terza rima.
(c) Trompe l'oeil paintings.
(d) Homeric versa.

2. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(b) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(c) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(d) The free market.

3. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?
(a) That it had to be developed.
(b) That it had to balance efficiencies with creating employment opportunities.
(c) That it had to be suppressed.
(d) That it had to be aligned with public virtues.

4. Who does Marx say will *not* contribute to reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Artists.
(c) Activists.
(d) Urban planners.

5. What does modern man hope for, in spite of industrialism?
(a) Limits on pollution.
(b) Reform for pollution.
(c) Cooperation with nature.
(d) Greater and greater resource use.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does our continued faith in the pastoral society preserve, in Marx's description?

2. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

3. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?

4. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?

5. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?

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