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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. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?
(a) As spokesmen for conservation.
(b) As advance agents of civilization.
(c) As experienced people hoping for redemption.
(d) As victims of political power.

2. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?
(a) He saw a unique opportunity in the New World.
(b) He thought the New World would improve the settlers.
(c) He thought that the New World could improve the natives.
(d) He thought that the settlers and natives could work together.

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

4. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Savage.
(c) Tumultuous.
(d) Idyllic.

5. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?
(a) As a refuge from Europe.
(b) As a tropical paradise.
(c) As a land of plenty.
(d) As a harsh land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?

2. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?

3. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?

4. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

5. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When did the pastoral ideal become a part of American culture?

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

4. How did Jefferson change his view on industrialism?

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

6. How did colonists see America?

7. What is the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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

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

10. How had Shakespeare learned about conditions in America?

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