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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work?
(a) As a new nature.
(b) As an improved nature.
(c) As a raw material.
(d) As a domestic industry.

2. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Nature seemed chaotic and devilish compared with civilization.
(b) Nature seemed benevolent compared with the disordered city.
(c) Nature seemed divine and benevolent compared with corrupt man.
(d) Nature had become a mirror for man's corrupt soul.

3. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Industrialists.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Urban planners.

4. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?
(a) 1620.
(b) 1690.
(c) 1607.
(d) 1703.

5. How did the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history?
(a) As a promised land.
(b) As a desert.
(c) As a pestilential swamp.
(d) As a purgatory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

3. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?

4. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?

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

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