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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?
2. What were Beverly's sources for his history of Virginia?
3. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?
4. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?
5. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Beverly ultimately disappointed in the New World?
2. What discovery does Marx say we find in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
3. How did Jefferson change his view on industrialism?
4. How did Shakespeare's characters describe the ideal society?
5. How did Jefferson describe the frontier in his Notes on Virginia?
6. What is the consequence of the pastoral ideal?
7. What is the pastoral ideal?
8. How long does Marx say the pastoral ideal has endured?
9. How does Shakespeare demonstrate the impossibility of the pastoral ideal?
10. In what way does the railroad symbolize the industrial intrusion into a pastoral idyll?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a review of Marx's 'The Machine in the Garden'. What did Marx set out to do in the book, and how did he do it? Did he accomplish his goals? Did he fulfill all his promises? Did he leave questions unanswered? Were there problems or contradictions in the work that undermined it?
Essay Topic 2
Which literary forms are most appropriate to the pastoral life, poetry, fiction or the non-fiction essays like Emerson and Thoreau wrote? Is there a literature form that corresponds to experience?
Essay Topic 3
Some writers describe pastoralism as a contradiction or paradox, between the good life and civilization on one hand and savagery on the other. How do authors strike this paradox, without falling off into a fixed idea, or stable definition, on one hand, or all-encompassing overreach on the other? How do authors keep the paradox alive?
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