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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 associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Power, productivity, and order.
(b) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(c) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.
(d) Fire, smoke and speed.

2. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?
(a) The Marble Faun.
(b) Sleepy Hollow Notes.
(c) Mosses from an Old Manse.
(d) The Celestial Railroad.

3. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) Legitimacy as an American.
(b) Maturity.
(c) A middle ground between city and country.
(d) A high ground in terms of religious experience.

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

5. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
(a) Tahiti.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?

2. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?

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

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

5. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

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