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

2. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?
(a) As simple and virtuous.
(b) As barbaric and cruel.
(c) As naïve and untrustworthy.
(d) As evil and plotting.

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) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(c) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.
(d) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.

4. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of African tribes.
(b) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(c) Accounts of travel to the New World.
(d) Accounts of travel to India.

5. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?
(a) Nineteenth century.
(b) With colonization.
(c) Twentieth century.
(d) Eighteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?

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

3. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?

4. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

5. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

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