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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(b) Power, productivity, and order.
(c) Fire, smoke and speed.
(d) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.

2. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?
(a) They could buy land so cheap from the natives.
(b) It was theirs by right of conquest.
(c) It was unsoiled by civilization.
(d) Everything was free for the taking.

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

4. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?
(a) An industrial capacity.
(b) Filthy cities.
(c) Opposition to expansion.
(d) Corrupt government.

5. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?
(a) As epicures.
(b) As untamed.
(c) As civilizing agents.
(d) As dilettantes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?

3. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?

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

5. What part of 'The Tempest' held special interest for Marx?

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