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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to convert the savages.
(b) The desire to know the earth mystically.
(c) The desire to make the earth productive.
(d) The desire to tame the landscape.

3. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?
(a) Power.
(b) Art.
(c) Civilization.
(d) Wealth.

4. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?
(a) To live out a primitive existence.
(b) To live in the lap of nature.
(c) To turn nature into an industrial resource.
(d) To transform nature into an ordered place.

5. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
(a) At colonization.
(b) At the Industrial Revolution.
(c) During the French Revolution.
(d) At the Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

2. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

3. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?

4. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

5. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

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