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

2. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) Arcadia.
(c) Paradise Regained.
(d) Paradise Lost.

3. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to convert the savages.
(b) The desire to know the earth mystically.
(c) The desire to tame the landscape.
(d) The desire to make the earth productive.

4. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?
(a) By a blue jay.
(b) By a railroad whistle.
(c) By an Indian.
(d) By a merchant.

5. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Homer.
(b) Plato.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

2. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

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

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

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

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