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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 contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?
(a) Lawlessness and restraint.
(b) Wisdom and innocence.
(c) Hardship and providence.
(d) Savagery and civilization.

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

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

4. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?
(a) As inevitable.
(b) As natural.
(c) As preventable.
(d) As unnatural.

5. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
(a) Harnessing natural resources.
(b) The savages' harmony with nature.
(c) Green, rural lifestyle.
(d) Domesticating wild things.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?

2. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?

3. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

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

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