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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 would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Imported grain.
(b) Nature's bounty.
(c) Money from exports.
(d) Natives' produce.

2. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?
(a) As a harsh land.
(b) As a tropical paradise.
(c) As a refuge from Europe.
(d) As a land of plenty.

3. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The conflict over resource use.
(b) The struggle for poetic expression.
(c) The conflict over resource use.
(d) The struggle for domination over nature.

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

5. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to home.
(b) Return to the city.
(c) Return to nature.
(d) Return to childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

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

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

4. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

5. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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