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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kingdoms of Force.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Thoreau describe modern man?
(a) Poised at the boundary between nature and industry.
(b) Torn apart by his desires.
(c) Unhappy in factories.
(d) Free in the wilderness.

2. How did the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history?
(a) As a desert.
(b) As a pestilential swamp.
(c) As a purgatory.
(d) As a promised land.

3. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?
(a) As spokesmen for conservation.
(b) As advance agents of civilization.
(c) As victims of political power.
(d) As experienced people hoping for redemption.

4. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?
(a) For leisure.
(b) As an inventory when he was governor.
(c) Upon his travels to Europe.
(d) At a French Diplomat's request.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thoreau conclude as a result of his time at Walden?

2. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

3. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?

4. What is Ishmael's task, in Marx's description of Melville's vision in Moby Dick?

5. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?

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