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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) Norris' The Octopus.
(c) James' Daisy Miller.
(d) Thoreau's Walden.

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

3. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?
(a) The personalities who will be required to develop America.
(b) The impossibility of the pastoral ideal.
(c) The plan for Utopia in America.
(d) The corruption of the Old World.

4. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?
(a) By a merchant.
(b) By a railroad whistle.
(c) By an Indian.
(d) By a blue jay.

5. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?
(a) A virtuous man of nature.
(b) An inventive entrepreneur.
(c) A powerful industrialist.
(d) An industrious, independent farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

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

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

4. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

5. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?

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