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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?
(a) Arcadia.
(b) Paradise Regained.
(c) Paradise Lost.
(d) The Iliad.

2. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?
(a) As advance agents of civilization.
(b) As experienced people hoping for redemption.
(c) As spokesmen for conservation.
(d) As victims of political power.

3. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Withdrawal from modernization.
(b) Urban planning for green spaces.
(c) Conservationism.
(d) Environmentalism.

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

5. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1584.
(b) 1609.
(c) 1590.
(d) 1650.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?

2. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

3. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?

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

5. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?

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