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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marx describe the encroachment of industrialism?
(a) As preventable.
(b) As unnatural.
(c) As inevitable.
(d) As natural.

2. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?
(a) City.
(b) Church.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Garden.

3. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Fairness in dividing territory.
(b) Justice in righting old wrongs.
(c) Balance between men and women.
(d) Balance between man and nature.

4. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
(a) The steam locomotive.
(b) The cotton gin.
(c) The steamship.
(d) The factory.

5. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?
(a) Government.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Finance.
(d) Manufacturing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

2. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

3. How did the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marx describe the value of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in 'The Machine in the Garden'?

2. What contradiction marks the early accounts of the New World, according to Marx?

3. How did Jefferson change his view on industrialism?

4. Why was Beverly ultimately disappointed in the New World?

5. How had Shakespeare learned about conditions in America?

6. What view did the colonists take of the New World in the early years of colonization?

7. What view typified the opposite of the bountiful-Edenic image of the New World?

8. What is the pastoral ideal?

9. How did Jefferson separate America and Europe in his Notes on Virginia?

10. What is complex pastoral ideology?

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