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

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

3. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.
(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) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.

4. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The conflict over resource use.
(b) The conflict over resource use.
(c) The struggle for poetic expression.
(d) The struggle for domination over nature.

5. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Government.
(c) Finance.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?

3. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?

4. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?

5. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had Shakespeare learned about conditions in America?

2. What is complex pastoral ideology?

3. What are the three spatial stages a person goes through in pastoral ideal?

4. How did Jefferson describe the frontier in his Notes on Virginia?

5. What feature of American culture allowed Jefferson's ideal to survive for 100 years?

6. When did complex pastoral ideology begin to appear in American culture?

7. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought by the time of Jefferson?

8. How does Shakespeare demonstrate the impossibility of the pastoral ideal?

9. What is the pastoral ideal?

10. How did Jefferson change his view on industrialism?

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