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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?
(a) 1607.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1703.
(d) 1690.

2. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?
(a) Determined.
(b) Cautiously optimistic.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Elated.

3. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.
(b) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.
(c) Nature commanded new respect.
(d) Factories had subjugated nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

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

3. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

4. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

5. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

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