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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Shakepeare's American Fable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did colonists find in America?
(a) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.
(b) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(c) A desert they could transform into a garden.
(d) Virgin land.

2. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Urban planners.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Industrialists.

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

4. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Fire, smoke and speed.
(b) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(c) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.
(d) Power, productivity, and order.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?

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

3. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

4. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

5. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

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