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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
2. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
3. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
4. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?
5. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is complex pastoral ideology?
2. When did complex pastoral ideology begin to appear in American culture?
3. How does Shakespeare demonstrate the impossibility of the pastoral ideal?
4. How long does Marx say the pastoral ideal has endured?
5. What ideal does the conclusion to Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' suggest, in Marx's interpretation?
6. What is the pastoral ideal?
7. What discovery does Marx say we find in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
8. Why was Beverly ultimately disappointed in the New World?
9. When did the pastoral ideal become a part of American culture?
10. How does Marx describe the value of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in 'The Machine in the Garden'?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does race factor into the experience of America pastoralism? What role did the Africans, slaves, and Native Americans have in the landscape? Was race a taint? (Was race a taint for whites as well?) Were they just emblems of nature to be treated like any other natural resource, or did pastoralism extend to the possibility of black white and red men running the earth in common?
Essay Topic 2
How do women experience the pastoral ideal? Are men's and women's experiences of nature and the simple life different? What is it in male or female nature or in Western culture that accounts for the difference?
Essay Topic 3
Manufacturing was both an evil and a source of national strength in the 18th century. How did manufacturing change the idea of industrialism, and did the acquisition of manufacturing strength redeem the loss of natural land? Who argued that it did? Who argued that it did not?
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