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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 is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Life in nature.
(d) Life in the city.

2. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are both monetized.
(b) They are no longer interdependent.
(c) They are no longer exclusive.
(d) They are both reinvented by machines.

3. What kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?
(a) Faster.
(b) More elegant.
(c) Simpler.
(d) More complex.

4. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Hawthorne.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Plato.
(d) Homer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?

2. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?

3. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

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

5. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

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