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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 did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose?

2. Who was Tench Coxe?

3. What was the general feeling about industrialism in America, as it expanded?

4. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?

5. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the pastoral ideal redeem the horrors of industrialism?

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

3. What is complex pastoral ideology, and where does Marx see it in evidence?

4. How did Emerson reconcile machines and nature?

5. How would you describe the genre shift at the end of 'The Machine in the Garden'?

6. What is the 'Garden of Ashes' a reference to?

7. How did Henry Adam's reconcile pastoralism and industrialism?

8. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson see nature?

9. How does Marx categorize modern man's attitude toward the pastoral ideal in terms of the authors he has analyzed?

10. How did Daniel Webster describe industrialism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Which literary forms are most appropriate to the pastoral life, poetry, fiction or the non-fiction essays like Emerson and Thoreau wrote? Is there a literature form that corresponds to experience?

Essay Topic 3

Is there an essential pastoralism, or is each person's or culture's pastoralism unique to its own context? Does the similarity of symbols and associations apply in every time and case? Read one of the stories or novels Marx analyzes, to see how the pastoral themes might be unique to the individual work.

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