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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) A political power struggle.
(b) A conflict over how to use resources.
(c) A conflict over territory.
(d) An engagement and marriage.

2. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) The reality of history.
(c) Extractive industries.
(d) Industrial modernism.

3. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) Natural spirituality.
(c) American colonization.
(d) Political intrigue.

4. What were Beverly's sources for his history of Virginia?
(a) The settlers' notes and journals.
(b) The sea captains' log books.
(c) Nautical charts.
(d) The King's records.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?

2. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

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

4. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?

5. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?

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