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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Nature seemed benevolent compared with the disordered city.
(b) Nature seemed chaotic and devilish compared with civilization.
(c) Nature had become a mirror for man's corrupt soul.
(d) Nature seemed divine and benevolent compared with corrupt man.

2. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Outdated buildings.
(b) Small towns.
(c) Urban parks.
(d) Urban areas.

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

4. In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work?
(a) As a new nature.
(b) As a domestic industry.
(c) As an improved nature.
(d) As a raw material.

5. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Factories had subjugated nature.
(b) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.
(c) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.
(d) Nature commanded new respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?

2. What were Beverly's sources for his history of Virginia?

3. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?

4. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?

5. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?

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