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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1780s.
(c) 1850s.
(d) 1840s.

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

3. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?
(a) With colonization.
(b) Eighteenth century.
(c) Nineteenth century.
(d) Twentieth century.

4. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
(a) Suppression of religious expression.
(b) Dogmas and conflicts over religion.
(c) Vanities and conflicts over property.
(d) Plagues and uncertainty over medical treatment.

5. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?
(a) The end of slavery.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Enclosure laws.
(d) Public transit.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

5. What kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?

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