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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 conflict over how to use resources.
(b) An engagement and marriage.
(c) A conflict over territory.
(d) A political power struggle.

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

3. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(b) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(c) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(d) The free market.

4. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?
(a) As inevitable.
(b) As natural.
(c) As unnatural.
(d) As preventable.

5. What did colonists find in America?
(a) A desert they could transform into a garden.
(b) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.
(c) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(d) Virgin land.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?

2. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?

3. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?

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

5. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?

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