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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Power, productivity, and order.
(b) Fire, smoke and speed.
(c) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.
(d) Efficiency, control, and profit.

2. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Enclosure laws.
(b) Public transit.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The end of slavery.

3. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?
(a) Nineteenth century.
(b) At colonization.
(c) Seventeenth century.
(d) Eighteenth century.

4. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The conflict over resource use.
(b) The struggle for poetic expression.
(c) The struggle for domination over nature.
(d) The conflict over resource use.

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) 1650.
(d) 1590.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?

2. What is the heart of the pastoral ideal?

3. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?

4. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?

5. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?

(see the answer key)

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