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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. How did Emerson describe the relationship between the east and the west?
(a) The east was bringing civilization to the wild west.
(b) The east's factories were a given, but they were balanced by the agrarian west.
(c) The east was producing literature, the west was producing science.
(d) The east's industry was destroying everything as it moved west.

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

3. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?
(a) Everything was free for the taking.
(b) It was unsoiled by civilization.
(c) It was theirs by right of conquest.
(d) They could buy land so cheap from the natives.

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?
(a) Twentieth century.
(b) With colonization.
(c) Eighteenth century.
(d) Nineteenth century.

5. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?
(a) As simple and virtuous.
(b) As naïve and untrustworthy.
(c) As evil and plotting.
(d) As barbaric and cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

2. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

3. What does Marx say about man's hopes for nature?

4. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?

5. How does Marx describe the pastoralism of the 19th century?

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