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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Garden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?
(a) To turn nature into an industrial resource.
(b) To live in the lap of nature.
(c) To transform nature into an ordered place.
(d) To live out a primitive existence.

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

3. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1609.
(b) 1584.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1590.

4. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Withdrawal from modernization.
(b) Environmentalism.
(c) Urban planning for green spaces.
(d) Conservationism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?

2. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

3. What did colonists find in America?

4. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

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

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