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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 does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(b) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(c) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.
(d) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did colonists find in America?

2. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

3. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?

4. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?

5. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

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