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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 do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Urban areas.
(b) Urban parks.
(c) Outdated buildings.
(d) Small towns.

2. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?
(a) A refuge.
(b) A place of redemption.
(c) A place of hardship.
(d) A source for good in the Old World.

3. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Idyllic.
(c) Savage.
(d) Tumultuous.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?

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

3. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?

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

5. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

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