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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. What is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Life in religion.
(b) Life in nature.
(c) Return to nature.
(d) Life in the city.

2. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1609.
(b) 1584.
(c) 1590.
(d) 1650.

3. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Cause and effect.
(c) Mutual reinforcement.
(d) Mutual exclusivity.

4. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?
(a) Corrupt men.
(b) Powerless men.
(c) A destructive god.
(d) A rural ideal.

5. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) Jim's incarceration.
(b) Tom Sawyer's punishment.
(c) His current civilized state.
(d) His loss of his father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

3. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

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

5. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?

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