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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Garden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?
(a) No disparity between rich and poor.
(b) No work.
(c) No government.
(d) No need for language.

2. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to nature.
(b) Life in nature.
(c) Life in the city.
(d) Life in religion.

3. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are no longer interdependent.
(b) They are both reinvented by machines.
(c) They are both monetized.
(d) They are no longer exclusive.

4. What part of 'The Tempest' held special interest for Marx?
(a) The portrait of men who gain power by disposing of natural resources.
(b) The portrait of indecision about taking the throne.
(c) The portrait of love's frailty against political power.
(d) The portrait of an unspoiled landscape invaded by Europeans.

5. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?
(a) Natives wanted progress, but then they hated themselves.
(b) Settlers wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.
(c) Whites wanted peace with the natives, but took their land to start wars.
(d) Settlers brought progress, but the natives didn't want it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

2. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?

3. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?

4. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?

5. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?

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