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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) Tom Sawyer's punishment.
(b) Jim's incarceration.
(c) His loss of his father.
(d) His current civilized state.

2. How does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?
(a) It requires long hours in dark factories.
(b) It uses only one part of him.
(c) It discourages invention.
(d) It treats him as a commodity.

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

4. What would manufacturing do for America, in Coxe's estimation?
(a) Unify the electorate.
(b) Drive western expansion.
(c) Ensure independence.
(d) Generate wealth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has happened to the ideal of the pastoral society, in Marx's opinion?

3. How does Marx predict the trend toward urbanization and industrialization will be reversed?

4. What does Marx point out accompanied factories and progress in transportation?

5. What defines complex pastoralism?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marx characterize the modern response to pastoralism?

2. What is the role of industry in Melville's Moby Dick?

3. What was John Orvis' reaction to industrialism?

4. How does Marx describe modern man's relationship with the pastoral ideal?

5. What was the dark side of industrialism, in most writers' eyes?

6. What is Ishmael's relationship with Ahab, in Melville's Moby Dick?

7. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson see nature?

8. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?

9. How did Thoreau reconcile machines and nature?

10. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's 'The Unpardonable Sin'?

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