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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 American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
2. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?
3. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
4. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
5. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Marx describe the value of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in 'The Machine in the Garden'?
2. How did Shakespeare's characters describe the ideal society?
3. Why was Beverly ultimately disappointed in the New World?
4. How long does Marx say the pastoral ideal has endured?
5. What contradiction marks the early accounts of the New World, according to Marx?
6. What is complex pastoral ideology?
7. What is the sentimental pastoral ideal?
8. What feature of American culture allowed Jefferson's ideal to survive for 100 years?
9. How did colonists see America?
10. What discovery does Marx say we find in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Some writers describe pastoralism as a contradiction or paradox, between the good life and civilization on one hand and savagery on the other. How do authors strike this paradox, without falling off into a fixed idea, or stable definition, on one hand, or all-encompassing overreach on the other? How do authors keep the paradox alive?
Essay Topic 2
Utopia means 'the good place' and 'no place'. How does this paradox relate to the pastoral ideal? Is pastoralism ultimately Utopian? What are the differences between Utopianism and pastoralism?
Essay Topic 3
How did the frontier resolve the tension between pastoralism and industrialism? How did it make the tension worse?
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