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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 aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
(a) Suppression of religious expression.
(b) Dogmas and conflicts over religion.
(c) Vanities and conflicts over property.
(d) Plagues and uncertainty over medical treatment.

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

3. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Ferdinand and Miranda.
(b) Gonzalo and Prospero.
(c) Gonzalo and Ferdinand.
(d) Miranda and Caliban.

4. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Balance between men and women.
(b) Fairness in dividing territory.
(c) Balance between man and nature.
(d) Justice in righting old wrongs.

5. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
(a) Hard work and sacrifice.
(b) Development and expansion.
(c) Generosity and sharing.
(d) Conservation and reservations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?

2. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?

3. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

4. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

5. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is complex pastoral ideology?

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

6. In what way does the railroad symbolize the industrial intrusion into a pastoral idyll?

7. What is the sentimental pastoral ideal?

8. How did Jefferson change his view on industrialism?

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

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

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