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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 most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) A conflict over territory.
(b) A conflict over how to use resources.
(c) A political power struggle.
(d) An engagement and marriage.

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

3. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to make the earth productive.
(b) The desire to know the earth mystically.
(c) The desire to convert the savages.
(d) The desire to tame the landscape.

4. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Rail trails.
(b) Exploitation of resources.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Relocation to the suburbs.

5. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are no longer exclusive.
(b) They are both monetized.
(c) They are no longer interdependent.
(d) They are both reinvented by machines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

3. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

4. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?

5. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?

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