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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?
(a) Elated.
(b) Determined.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Cautiously optimistic.

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

3. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to home.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Return to childhood.
(d) Return to the city.

4. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?
(a) To live out a primitive existence.
(b) To transform nature into an ordered place.
(c) To live in the lap of nature.
(d) To turn nature into an industrial resource.

5. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Relocation to the suburbs.
(b) Exploitation of resources.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Rail trails.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?

3. In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work?

4. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

5. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?

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