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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 was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?
2. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
3. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
4. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
5. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did the pastoral ideal become a part of American culture?
2. How long does Marx say the pastoral ideal has endured?
3. When did complex pastoral ideology begin to appear in American culture?
4. What view typified the opposite of the bountiful-Edenic image of the New World?
5. What view did the colonists take of the New World in the early years of colonization?
6. How did Robert Beverly describe the New World in his History?
7. What is the pastoral ideal?
8. How does Marx describe the value of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in 'The Machine in the Garden'?
9. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought by the time of Jefferson?
10. How does Marx describe the ambiguity of existence Beverly hit on?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Notes on Virginia, Jefferson argues for keeping the factories in Europe. What role did pastoralism play in American nationalism, and how did it distinguish America from Europe? How was American pastoralism different than European pastoralism?
Essay Topic 2
How does Marx define the term pastoral ideology, and how does he describe the terms' uses? What uses does the term have, if it can be used for everything from social activities to government policies to literary themes? Is pastoralism always the same phenomena, or is it different depending on its application?
Essay Topic 3
Is there an essential pastoralism, or is each person's or culture's pastoralism unique to its own context? Does the similarity of symbols and associations apply in every time and case? Read one of the stories or novels Marx analyzes, to see how the pastoral themes might be unique to the individual work.
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