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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 nature.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Return to the city.
(d) Life in the city.

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

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

4. What did colonists find in America?
(a) Virgin land.
(b) A desert they could transform into a garden.
(c) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(d) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.

5. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Morrison's Beloved.
(b) Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
(c) Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
(d) Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?

2. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

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

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

5. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

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