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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
(a) The savages' harmony with nature.
(b) Domesticating wild things.
(c) Harnessing natural resources.
(d) Green, rural lifestyle.

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

3. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) Maturity.
(b) A high ground in terms of religious experience.
(c) A middle ground between city and country.
(d) Legitimacy as an American.

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

5. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?
(a) Political intrigue.
(b) Sparse resources and unsafe territory.
(c) Storms and primitive land.
(d) Rocky soil and harsh laws.

6. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
(a) The steamship.
(b) The factory.
(c) The steam locomotive.
(d) The cotton gin.

7. 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.

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

9. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?
(a) An inventive entrepreneur.
(b) A virtuous man of nature.
(c) An industrious, independent farmer.
(d) A powerful industrialist.

10. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Relocation.
(b) Feelings of alienation.
(c) Unionization.
(d) Rebellion.

11. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) American colonization.
(c) Natural spirituality.
(d) Political intrigue.

12. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By conserving.
(b) By making green spaces.
(c) By mining resources.
(d) By building cities.

13. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?
(a) Terza rima.
(b) Trompe l'oeil paintings.
(c) Landscape painting.
(d) Homeric versa.

14. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?
(a) A whale hunt.
(b) Living in the woods.
(c) A reverie in the woods.
(d) Indian wars.

15. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(b) Accounts of travel to the New World.
(c) Accounts of African tribes.
(d) Accounts of travel to India.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

2. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

3. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?

4. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?

5. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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