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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.
(b) Regulation of speculative investments.
(c) Farm subsidies.
(d) Low taxes.

2. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?
(a) As a requirement for a green society.
(b) As a hindrance to progress.
(c) As a harmless fantasy.
(d) As the path to the future.

3. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of travel to the New World.
(b) Accounts of travel to India.
(c) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(d) Accounts of African tribes.

4. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) Thoreau's Walden.
(c) Norris' The Octopus.
(d) James' Daisy Miller.

5. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Tahiti.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?

2. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

3. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?

4. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?

5. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?

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