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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By conserving.
(b) By building cities.
(c) By making green spaces.
(d) By mining resources.

2. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?
(a) The impossibility of the pastoral ideal.
(b) The corruption of the Old World.
(c) The plan for Utopia in America.
(d) The personalities who will be required to develop America.

3. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Relocation to the suburbs.
(c) Exploitation of resources.
(d) Rail trails.

4. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Regulation of speculative investments.
(b) Low taxes.
(c) Farm subsidies.
(d) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?

2. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

3. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

4. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?

5. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?

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