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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?
(a) Mosses from an Old Manse.
(b) The Marble Faun.
(c) Sleepy Hollow Notes.
(d) The Celestial Railroad.

4. How did the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history?
(a) As a pestilential swamp.
(b) As a promised land.
(c) As a desert.
(d) As a purgatory.

5. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Theatre.
(b) Flying.
(c) Travel.
(d) Hiking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?

3. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?

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

5. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?

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