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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 Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?
(a) A powerful industrialist.
(b) An inventive entrepreneur.
(c) An industrious, independent farmer.
(d) A virtuous man of nature.

2. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Nature seemed divine and benevolent compared with corrupt man.
(b) Nature seemed chaotic and devilish compared with civilization.
(c) Nature seemed benevolent compared with the disordered city.
(d) Nature had become a mirror for man's corrupt soul.

3. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) A middle ground between city and country.
(b) Legitimacy as an American.
(c) A high ground in terms of religious experience.
(d) Maturity.

4. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?
(a) Industry provides for men and destroys them.
(b) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.
(c) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(d) Man reveres nature but plunders it.

5. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?
(a) Optimism about industrial expansion into the midwest.
(b) Nostalgia for the old days on the Mississippi.
(c) Lamentation about the death of Indian cultures.
(d) Fear about the consequences of the railroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would men of understanding provide in Emerson's vision?

2. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?

3. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?

4. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?

5. What symbolic statement does Marx say Twain made in the raft being destroyed in Huckleberry Finn?

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