English 11 vocab 25

To calculate the overall effect of this country’s ____ of the railroad, one could study the _____ of a small town to see how changes in delivery schedules affected daily life.

• thwarting, tenacity

• acquisition, microcosm

• alleviating, debacle

• wiliness, rigorousness

Most people thought that technology would ___ many hardships of daily life.

• alleviate

• thwart

• acquire

• make wily

Hawthorne and Thoreau used train imagery as a disruptive force, one with the potential of ___nature.

• alleviating

• thwarting

• acquiring

• congratulating

The vast majority landscape ____attempts at industrialization since it was too large to cover. However, supporters of technology found creative, sometimes _____ ways to mechanize the country.

• thwarted, wily

• debacle, rigorous

• alleviated, tenacious

• thwarted, ulterior

Hawthorne’s hidden, ___ motive in using themes of loss and anxiety in his stories may have been a comment on what happens to people once life becomes more ___ and less fluid.

• microcosm, rigorous

• tenacious, wily

• thwarted, rigorous

• ulterior, brusque

These writers were ___ in their persistent use of machine images as a way to write about the changing American landscape.

• rigorous

• tenacious

• wily

• brusque

Emerson tended to view technology not as _____, or disaster, for the natural world, but as a sign of humans’ power over the world.

• a debacle

• a microcosm

• an alleviation

• a rigorousness

In Walden, Thoreau writes about living in the woods ____, or strictly, following Emerson’s  instructions on how to “correctly” live. Thoreau saw his home in the woods as ____ that reflected the truths of the whole world.

• tenaciously, an acquisition

• rigorously, a microcosm

• wily, a debacle

• brusquely, a tenaciousness

The literature of Thoreau and Emerson is not just about society’s ___ of technology; it is also about how life in the U.S. took on a new shape because of machines.

• alleviation

• debacle

• rigorousness

• a microcosm

Industrialization was not the ____ feared by some, nor was it the cure-all hoped for by others.

• acquisition

• brusqueness

• debacle

• alleviation