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

2. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?
(a) Music.
(b) Literature.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sculpture.

3. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(b) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.
(c) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(d) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.

4. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Hiking.
(b) Travel.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Flying.

5. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?
(a) Church.
(b) Heaven.
(c) City.
(d) Garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?

2. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?

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

4. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?

5. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?

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