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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?
(a) The impossibility of the pastoral ideal.
(b) The personalities who will be required to develop America.
(c) The plan for Utopia in America.
(d) The corruption of the Old World.

2. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(b) Morrison's Beloved.
(c) Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
(d) Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

3. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) A conflict over territory.
(b) A political power struggle.
(c) A conflict over how to use resources.
(d) An engagement and marriage.

4. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Hawthorne.
(b) Plato.
(c) Homer.
(d) Virgil.

5. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?
(a) A place of hardship.
(b) A place of redemption.
(c) A source for good in the Old World.
(d) A refuge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

2. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

3. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?

4. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?

5. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?

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