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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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(a) Outdated buildings.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.

2. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Travel.
(b) Hiking.
(c) Flying.
(d) Theatre.

3. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?
(a) As a tropical paradise.
(b) As a harsh land.
(c) As a land of plenty.
(d) As a refuge from Europe.

4. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?
(a) As naïve and untrustworthy.
(b) As barbaric and cruel.
(c) As simple and virtuous.
(d) As evil and plotting.

5. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Balance between men and women.
(b) Balance between man and nature.
(c) Fairness in dividing territory.
(d) Justice in righting old wrongs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?

2. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

3. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

4. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?

5. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?

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