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

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

3. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?
(a) Storms and primitive land.
(b) Sparse resources and unsafe territory.
(c) Rocky soil and harsh laws.
(d) Political intrigue.

4. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?
(a) Industrial modernism.
(b) The reality of history.
(c) Extractive industries.
(d) Urbanization.

5. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Plato.
(b) Homer.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?

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

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

5. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

(see the answer key)

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