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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. What did colonists find in America?
(a) Virgin land.
(b) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.
(c) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(d) A desert they could transform into a garden.

2. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?
(a) Natural spirituality.
(b) Indigenous people.
(c) Political intrigue.
(d) American colonization.

3. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Regulation of speculative investments.
(b) Low taxes.
(c) Farm subsidies.
(d) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.

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

5. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?
(a) To transform nature into an ordered place.
(b) To live in the lap of nature.
(c) To live out a primitive existence.
(d) To turn nature into an industrial resource.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?

3. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?

4. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

5. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

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