2. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?
(a) Peace with natives.
(b) Absence of foreign threats.
(c) A frontier to expand into.
(d) Slow pace of technological development.

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

4. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?
(a) Determined.
(b) Elated.
(c) Cautiously optimistic.
(d) Disappointed.

5. What did colonists find in America?
(a) Virgin land.
(b) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(c) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.
(d) A desert they could transform into a garden.

6. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?
(a) European military power.
(b) Industrialism.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Corruption.

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

8. What part of 'The Tempest' held special interest for Marx?
(a) The portrait of an unspoiled landscape invaded by Europeans.
(b) The portrait of indecision about taking the throne.
(c) The portrait of men who gain power by disposing of natural resources.
(d) The portrait of love's frailty against political power.

9. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
(a) Vanities and conflicts over property.
(b) Plagues and uncertainty over medical treatment.
(c) Suppression of religious expression.
(d) Dogmas and conflicts over religion.

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

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

12. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?
(a) Literature.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Music.
(d) Painting.

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

14. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
(a) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
(b) The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.
(c) The promise that a man can change his life.
(d) The promise that the wilderness can be domesticated.

15. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Balance between men and women.
(b) Fairness in dividing territory.
(c) Balance between man and nature.
(d) Justice in righting old wrongs.