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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are both monetized.
(b) They are no longer exclusive.
(c) They are no longer interdependent.
(d) They are both reinvented by machines.

2. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
(a) The promise that the wilderness can be domesticated.
(b) The promise that a man can change his life.
(c) The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.
(d) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.

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

4. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
(a) Generosity and sharing.
(b) Hard work and sacrifice.
(c) Conservation and reservations.
(d) Development and expansion.

5. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) The free market.
(b) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(c) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(d) Fostering entrepreneurship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?

2. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?

3. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?

4. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?

5. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

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