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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Life in the city.
(c) Life in nature.
(d) Return to nature.

2. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
(a) At colonization.
(b) At the Revolution.
(c) At the Industrial Revolution.
(d) During the French Revolution.

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

4. How would you describe Marx's book 'The Machine in the Garden'?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Political.
(c) Academic.
(d) Prophetic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?

2. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?

3. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?

4. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?

5. How did Emerson portray nature?

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