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

2. What is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to nature.
(b) Life in the city.
(c) Life in nature.
(d) Return to the city.

3. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Balance between men and women.
(b) Balance between man and nature.
(c) Fairness in dividing territory.
(d) Justice in righting old wrongs.

4. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
(a) At colonization.
(b) At the Industrial Revolution.
(c) At the Revolution.
(d) During the French Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?

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

3. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

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

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

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