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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Art.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

2. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?
(a) No government.
(b) No work.
(c) No need for language.
(d) No disparity between rich and poor.

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) Settlers wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.
(d) Whites wanted peace with the natives, but took their land to start wars.

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

5. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) The free market.
(b) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(c) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(d) A government that encouraged self-reliance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

2. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?

3. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?

4. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

5. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Shakespeare's characters describe the ideal society?

2. What view typified the opposite of the bountiful-Edenic image of the New World?

3. What is the sentimental pastoral ideal?

4. What discovery does Marx say we find in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?

5. What is the pastoral ideal?

6. How does Marx describe the ambiguity of existence Beverly hit on?

7. What is complex pastoral ideology?

8. How did Jefferson separate America and Europe in his Notes on Virginia?

9. Why was Beverly ultimately disappointed in the New World?

10. What contradiction marks the early accounts of the New World, according to Marx?

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