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

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

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

4. 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 struggle for domination over nature.
(d) The conflict over resource use.

5. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Regulation of speculative investments.
(b) Farm subsidies.
(c) Low taxes.
(d) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

2. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?

3. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

4. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

5. What did colonists find in America?

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