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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. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
2. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
3. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
4. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
5. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did the pastoral ideal become a part of American culture?
2. How did colonists see America?
3. Where has the pastoral ideal been apparent in American culture?
4. When did complex pastoral ideology begin to appear in American culture?
5. How did Jefferson change his view on industrialism?
6. What characters does Marx cite as examples of people who have gone through those three stages?
7. What does Marx mean when he says that America offered a middle way for men?
8. What view typified the opposite of the bountiful-Edenic image of the New World?
9. What feature of American culture allowed Jefferson's ideal to survive for 100 years?
10. How does Marx describe the ambiguity of existence Beverly hit on?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Research Utopian communities in America--from Brook Farm to Fruitlands to Fourierian and Owensian communes to contemporary Utopian communities. Are these places living out the pastoral ideal?
Essay Topic 2
Utopia means 'the good place' and 'no place'. How does this paradox relate to the pastoral ideal? Is pastoralism ultimately Utopian? What are the differences between Utopianism and pastoralism?
Essay Topic 3
Write a review of Marx's 'The Machine in the Garden'. What did Marx set out to do in the book, and how did he do it? Did he accomplish his goals? Did he fulfill all his promises? Did he leave questions unanswered? Were there problems or contradictions in the work that undermined it?
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