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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Return to childhood.
(d) Return to home.

3. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?
(a) Civilization and primitive life.
(b) Wilderness and domestication.
(c) Comfort and exploration.
(d) Corruption and innocence.

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

5. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?
(a) Agriculture was going to supply the nation's wealth.
(b) Natural resources were going to be a source of wealth for generations.
(c) Virgin territory was going absorb all the overflowing east-coast cities.
(d) Wilderness was going to redeem the nation's soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

2. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

3. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?

4. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

5. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

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