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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Shakepeare's American Fable.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Hiking.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Flying.
(d) Travel.
2. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(b) Accounts of travel to the New World.
(c) Accounts of travel to India.
(d) Accounts of African tribes.
3. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The struggle for domination over nature.
(b) The conflict over resource use.
(c) The conflict over resource use.
(d) The struggle for poetic expression.
4. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?
(a) As preventable.
(b) As inevitable.
(c) As unnatural.
(d) As natural.
5. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to childhood.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Return to the city.
(d) Return to home.
Short Answer Questions
1. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
2. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?
3. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
4. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?
5. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
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