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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?
2. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?
3. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?
4. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
5. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?
Short Essay Questions
1. What contradiction marks the early accounts of the New World, according to Marx?
2. What characters does Marx cite as examples of people who have gone through those three stages?
3. What is the consequence of the pastoral ideal?
4. When did complex pastoral ideology begin to appear in American culture?
5. What are the three spatial stages a person goes through in pastoral ideal?
6. How does Shakespeare demonstrate the impossibility of the pastoral ideal?
7. How did Jefferson separate America and Europe in his Notes on Virginia?
8. In what way does the railroad symbolize the industrial intrusion into a pastoral idyll?
9. How did Jefferson describe the frontier in his Notes on Virginia?
10. What is complex pastoral ideology?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did the frontier resolve the tension between pastoralism and industrialism? How did it make the tension worse?
Essay Topic 2
Which literary forms are most appropriate to the pastoral life, poetry, fiction or the non-fiction essays like Emerson and Thoreau wrote? Is there a literature form that corresponds to experience?
Essay Topic 3
From driving to National Parks, or seeing wildlife in zoos or managing environments for the sake of wildfires or endangered species, Americans seem to be able to reconcile a high level of science and industry with a high sense of nature and pristineness. What arts or cultural developments have allowed Americans to endure the paradoxes of their industrial lifestyles?
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