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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?
(a) Sparse resources and unsafe territory.
(b) Political intrigue.
(c) Storms and primitive land.
(d) Rocky soil and harsh laws.

2. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Ferdinand and Miranda.
(b) Gonzalo and Prospero.
(c) Miranda and Caliban.
(d) Gonzalo and Ferdinand.

3. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?
(a) Trompe l'oeil paintings.
(b) Landscape painting.
(c) Homeric versa.
(d) Terza rima.

4. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Church.
(c) Garden.
(d) City.

5. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?
(a) An industrious, independent farmer.
(b) A powerful industrialist.
(c) A virtuous man of nature.
(d) An inventive entrepreneur.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

4. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

5. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?

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