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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 desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to make the earth productive.
(b) The desire to know the earth mystically.
(c) The desire to convert the savages.
(d) The desire to tame the landscape.

2. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By mining resources.
(b) By building cities.
(c) By making green spaces.
(d) By conserving.

3. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?
(a) Trompe l'oeil paintings.
(b) Homeric versa.
(c) Terza rima.
(d) Landscape painting.

4. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?
(a) Creativity and inspiration.
(b) Intellect and privilege.
(c) Ingenuity and technology.
(d) Creativity and inspiration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?

2. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

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

4. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How long does Marx say the pastoral ideal has endured?

5. What ideal does the conclusion to Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' suggest, in Marx's interpretation?

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

7. Where has the pastoral ideal been apparent in American culture?

8. What is the pastoral ideal?

9. How had Shakespeare learned about conditions in America?

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

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