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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 need for language.
(b) No work.
(c) No government.
(d) No disparity between rich and poor.

2. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?
(a) Garden.
(b) Heaven.
(c) City.
(d) Church.

3. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?
(a) Civilization and primitive life.
(b) Comfort and exploration.
(c) Corruption and innocence.
(d) Wilderness and domestication.

4. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.
(b) Farm subsidies.
(c) Regulation of speculative investments.
(d) Low taxes.

5. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By making green spaces.
(b) By mining resources.
(c) By building cities.
(d) By conserving.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work?

2. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

3. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?

4. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?

5. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

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