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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 Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(b) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(c) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.
(d) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.

2. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
(a) Tahiti.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?
(a) As spokesmen for conservation.
(b) As advance agents of civilization.
(c) As victims of political power.
(d) As experienced people hoping for redemption.

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

5. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?
(a) No work.
(b) No need for language.
(c) No disparity between rich and poor.
(d) No government.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?

3. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?

4. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

5. What part of 'The Tempest' held special interest for Marx?

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