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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Garden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) A middle ground between city and country.
(b) A high ground in terms of religious experience.
(c) Maturity.
(d) Legitimacy as an American.

2. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?
(a) Industrialism.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Corruption.
(d) European military power.

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

4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Nature's bounty.
(b) Money from exports.
(c) Imported grain.
(d) Natives' produce.

5. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?
(a) By a blue jay.
(b) By a railroad whistle.
(c) By a merchant.
(d) By an Indian.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?

2. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?

3. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?

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

5. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?

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