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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 does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?
(a) An industrial capacity.
(b) Corrupt government.
(c) Opposition to expansion.
(d) Filthy cities.

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

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

4. What would men of understanding provide in Emerson's vision?
(a) Technology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Literature.

5. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?
(a) Government.
(b) Finance.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Manufacturing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What power does Marx credit government with, in reversing the trend toward urbanization and industrialization?

3. What part of man remained free of industrialism, in Carlyle's view?

4. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?

5. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?

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