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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?
(a) Industrialism.
(b) European military power.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Corruption.

2. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of African tribes.
(b) Accounts of travel to India.
(c) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(d) Accounts of travel to the New World.

3. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?
(a) 1703.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1690.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

3. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?

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

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

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