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

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

3. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) A conflict over territory.
(b) A political power struggle.
(c) An engagement and marriage.
(d) A conflict over how to use resources.

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

5. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Environmentalism.
(b) Urban planning for green spaces.
(c) Conservationism.
(d) Withdrawal from modernization.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?

3. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?

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

5. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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

4. How had Shakespeare learned about conditions in America?

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

6. What characters does Marx cite as examples of people who have gone through those three stages?

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

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

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

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

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