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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1609.
(c) 1584.
(d) 1590.

2. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?
(a) As epicures.
(b) As dilettantes.
(c) As civilizing agents.
(d) As untamed.

3. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?
(a) Natives wanted progress, but then they hated themselves.
(b) Settlers brought progress, but the natives didn't want it.
(c) Whites wanted peace with the natives, but took their land to start wars.
(d) Settlers wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.

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

5. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(b) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.
(c) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.
(d) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?

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

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

5. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?

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