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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?
(a) Natural resources were going to be a source of wealth for generations.
(b) Agriculture was going to supply the nation's wealth.
(c) Virgin territory was going absorb all the overflowing east-coast cities.
(d) Wilderness was going to redeem the nation's soul.

2. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?
(a) He thought the New World would improve the settlers.
(b) He saw a unique opportunity in the New World.
(c) He thought that the settlers and natives could work together.
(d) He thought that the New World could improve the natives.

3. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?
(a) A place of redemption.
(b) A place of hardship.
(c) A source for good in the Old World.
(d) A refuge.

4. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?
(a) Finance.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Government.
(d) Manufacturing.

5. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) A high ground in terms of religious experience.
(b) A middle ground between city and country.
(c) Legitimacy as an American.
(d) Maturity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?

2. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

3. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

4. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

5. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

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