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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) Urban areas.
(b) Outdated buildings.
(c) Small towns.
(d) Urban parks.

2. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.
(b) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(c) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(d) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.

3. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?
(a) Wisdom and innocence.
(b) Hardship and providence.
(c) Lawlessness and restraint.
(d) Savagery and civilization.

4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Money from exports.
(b) Natives' produce.
(c) Nature's bounty.
(d) Imported grain.

5. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Public transit.
(b) Enclosure laws.
(c) The end of slavery.
(d) Slavery.

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 did the settlers find appealing about the New World?

3. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

4. What were Beverly's sources for his history of Virginia?

5. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?

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