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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. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
2. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?
3. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
4. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?
5. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?
Short Essay Questions
1. What view typified the opposite of the bountiful-Edenic image of the New World?
2. How did Jefferson separate America and Europe in his Notes on Virginia?
3. How did Robert Beverly describe the New World in his History?
4. What is the consequence of the pastoral ideal?
5. How does Marx describe the value of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in 'The Machine in the Garden'?
6. What characters does Marx cite as examples of people who have gone through those three stages?
7. What contradiction marks the early accounts of the New World, according to Marx?
8. How long does Marx say the pastoral ideal has endured?
9. When did complex pastoral ideology begin to appear in American culture?
10. When did the pastoral ideal become a part of American culture?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do you think that there was ever a 'good place in nature' or is this concept itself a nostalgic imposition on the experience of loss, and the acquisition of civilization?
Essay Topic 2
How does race factor into the experience of America pastoralism? What role did the Africans, slaves, and Native Americans have in the landscape? Was race a taint? (Was race a taint for whites as well?) Were they just emblems of nature to be treated like any other natural resource, or did pastoralism extend to the possibility of black white and red men running the earth in common?
Essay Topic 3
The Bible is frequently cited as a source for the colonists' belief that they had reached a promised land where they had to have dominion and make a city on the hill, a garden out of the wilderness. Trace one biblical imperative through a few works of pastoral ideal. How does the biblical idea express itself in different works?
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